Category: Sectionalism

Between 1740 and 1865, tensions between the Northern and Southern colonies and states grew, due to their increasingly diverging interests. While most historians agree that the conflict over slavery was one of the main causes of the war, whether these conflicts were ideological, political, moralistic, economic, or social, is something that still continues to be…

The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of country wide purpose and a desire for harmony among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812. The technology noticed the crumple of the Federalist Party and an cease to the bitter partisan…

Starting in the late 1700s, the United States gradually established itself as a nation that was heavily reliant on slavery because of the Southern plantation-based economy. As the nation developed, some people such as Quakers were against slavery because of their religious belief, while other people gradually moved over to the abolitionist side in the…