Cultural Sectionalism

207 therefore even though a woman especially a black woman may become influential in a particular field she may feel as though she does not belong.

Cultural sectionalism. Sectionalism is the idea that individual communities of people sharing a set of cultural economic and geographic realities create individuated sections and loyalties within a larger polity and it existed long before and continued long after the civil war. The south experienced the greatest concentration of sectionalism especially in the regards of slavery. Sectionalism which refers to loyalty to a section of a nation rather than to the nation as a whole contributed to a southern identity based not only on a distinctively different way of life but on a geographically shared mistrust and apprehension towards the northern way of life represented by the federal government and the election of united states president abraham lincoln.

The issue of slavery dominated national politics and both sides the north and the south rapidly hardened their opposition or support for the institution. Southern middle and new england. For this to be success slavery was an almost a natural need for the people of the south.

Cotton began to grow as a cash crop for the south. From the united states foundation in 1776 through the 1850s sectionalism gradually brought the country closer to civil war. S14 this relates to the specific experiences to which people are subjected as they move from a common cultural world i e family to that of modern society.

Antebellum sectionalism and reform us history eoc review ushc. Resenting the large profits amassed by northern businessmen from marketing the cotton crop southerners attributed the backwardness of their own section to northern aggrandizement. Sectionalism in 1800s america refers to the different lifestyles social structures customs and the political values of the north and the south.

Sectionalism is the expression of loyalty or support for a particular region of one s country rather than to the country as a whole. Slavery and sectionalism one issue however exacerbated the regional and economic differences between north and south. In contrast to simple feelings of local pride sectionalism arises from deeper cultural economic or political differences and can lead to violent civil strife including insurrection.

The south began to rely on agriculture as their basis of economic growth. Sectionalism is identification with a geographic section of the united states and the cultural social economic and political interests of that section.