What part did politics play in sectionalism?

Answer 1

there was 3 parties for each section. this gave each section a chance to vote for what they think the right decision. so basically, each party could not agree with each other on how 2 run the government. so the parties were formed.

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Answer 2

All three branches of the government failed the people and The Era of Compromise was dead. On a combination mission for Manifest Destiny and greed, by wanting a Transcontinental Railroad and needing more Southern votes, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act "repealing the Missouri Compromise". This Act was law in 1854 and it allowed armed proslavery supporters from Missouri to rush across the territorial border of Kansas to vote for slavery and that put pro-slavery candidates into office. The new legislators drafted their own more strict Fugitive Slave Act and also new laws making it a Capital offense to question in public or debate slavery within the territory of Kansas. To which was an obvious violation of the U.S. Constitution 1 Amendment. Free Soilers responded by starting their own legislature and the two sectional governments continued to fight for territorial control causing Bleeding Kansas. Although it was not it's intentions, the U.S. Supreme Court helped in creating this mob violence, by it's contradicting decisions and the icing on the cake was the Dred Scott Decision case in 1857. Which implied that blacks were not U.S. citizens. The Democratic Party was split into Northern, Free Soil Party and Southern, Know-Nothing Party. Anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers Party members and, northern Democrats all joined in response by creating the Republican Party. Because of this Democratic split a Republican was sure to win the 1860 president election. Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected sixteenth President of the United States. After the 1860 president elections the South felt disassociated from Washington. South Carolina seceded on December 20th, 1860. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas soon followed. The American Civil War was the result.

Answer 3

Sectionalism was a problem within the southern and northern states which divided the country. While both areas of the country were loyal to their country they had major differences in their thinking. This affected the various candidates that ran for national seats within the country's elections.

Answer 4

Sectionalism has affected American politics since the Revolutionary War when the New England merchants and bankers had different ideas on monetary policy than the poor farmers. Sectionalism is a difference of opinion due to regional, religious, or ethnic differences, and it continues to this day; after the Supreme Court's June 2015 decision allowing gay marriage, several of the southern GOP candidates for president suggested the Court should be ignored.