Transcript Sectionalism vs. Nationalism

Pride in section of country
vs.
Pride in America
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Northerners
Favored protective tariff, 2nd Bank of the US, internal
improvements at federal expense
Economic pursuits- shipping, fishing, lumbering and farming
Significant industrialization
◦ Utilized free labor
◦ Powerful class of industrial capitalists
◦ Massachusetts- leading industrial state
◦ Chief products-textiles, leather goods, iron implements,
utensils, machinery
◦ Created jobs for large immigrant population.
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Opposed protective tariff, 2nd Bank of the US,
internal improvements at federal expense
Favored liberal land policy, territorial
expansion into the southwest expansion of
slavery
Farming economy
◦ Many small subsistence farmers
◦ Small # of wealthy plantation owners dominated
 Used slave labor
 Cash crops –tobacco, rice, sugar but cotton
was KING
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Favored protective tariffs, liberal land policy,
territorial expansion, internal improvements
at federal expense
Opposed 2nd Bank of the US, expansion of
slavery
Small, family-sized farms
Raised wheat, rye, corn, meat
Worked hard on own farms to improve
economic status