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SECTIONALISM
Does Era of Good Feelings Last?
NO!!!• Supreme Court rulings of John Marshall• Conflicts between the two political parties• Building & expansion in the country did not
benefit everyone
3 Regions Develop
NORTH WESTSOUTH
SECTIONALISM
• Devotion to one section of the country instead of the whole country
NORTH• Center of industrial growth• Rivers provided water power for machines• Rivers were natural highways• Erie Canal• Steamboats & railroads invented before 1850• Immigrants land in NYC & Boston and
provided cheap labor• National bank rechartered• Tariffs increased in 1816
SOUTH
• Economy depended on farming• Cotton was #1 cash crop• Cotton gin increases production (Eli Whitney)• Need more land• Plantation class vs. slaves (distinct class
differences in the South)
WEST
• Agricultural (small farms)• More connected with North with new
transportation (i.e. canals, RR’s, & roads)• Growing fast!
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• 11 free states• 11 slave states• Upset balance of power in Congress• Great Compromiser, Henry Clay
3 PARTS
1. Missouri enters as a slave state2. Maine enters as a free state3. The 36’30” line is established. Any territory
north of the line would be free, anything south would be slave.