Sectionalism (dividing America)

Question 1

What is sectionalism

Answer 1

Primary loyalty is to a state instead of the nation

Question 2

What are the three regions

Answer 2

North( Massachusetts, New York,)
South(Virginia, South Carolina)
West(Tennessee, Kentucky)

Question 3

What was the South

Answer 3

It was very rural, it’s largest city was New Orleans, least educated region and it was had the least industry’s

Question 4

What crops did the South grow

Answer 4

Cotton, tobacco, sugar, corn,

Question 5

What was the Southern society

Answer 5

Rigid class structure

Question 6

What was a planter class

Answer 6

5% of population
Owned 90% of slaves

Question 7

What was a small white farmer class

Answer 7

80% owned the population

Question 8

What was landless white class

Answer 8

Couldn’t afford land

Question 9

What was a free African American class

Answer 9

1/2 million in 1860

Question 10

What was the slave class

Answer 10

Six million in 1860

Question 11

What did the south dominate in and why

Answer 11

Cotton because of the cotton gin

Question 12

Where was most cotton grown

Answer 12

In the lower South

Question 13

Who was the leader of the South

Answer 13

John C. Calhoun

Question 14

Who was John C. Calhoun

Answer 14

He was from South Carolina and was the leading spokesman for slavery and state rights

Question 15

What did the North have

Answer 15

Most population
Most industrial
Richest region
-Factories
-Banks
Merchants
Most educated
-most colleges
- States required public education
Largest cities
- New York cities
- Philadelphia
-Boston

Question 16

What was the Northern class like

Answer 16

factory owners/ bankers/ merchants were upper class

Question 17

What was the Northern class like

Answer 17

factory owners/ bankers/ merchants were upper class
Worker/ Small factories owners were middle class
Unemployed people were lower class

Question 18

Who was the leader of the North, where was he from and what was he

Answer 18

Sen. Daniel Webster from Massachusetts and was the champion of nationalism

Question 19

What was the west

Answer 19

-Most democratic region

Question 20

What was the west

Answer 20

Most democratic region
-No property requirement to vote
Most equal region
-everyone is equal
-no class system
Small scale slavery
-owner usually worked with their slaves

Question 21

Who were the two leaders of the west and what did they think of each other

Answer 21

Henry Clay of Kentucky and Andrew Jackson of Tennesse and they dispiesed each other

Question 22

What are yeoman farmers

Answer 22

They are farmers that try and farm land and if it doesn’t work they move farther west to start over

Question 23

What did the west have

Answer 23

Few plantations