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Sectionalism

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Families have differences and inevitably fight. During the 1800s this was the state of America. We weren't united but were in sections. Sectionalism was the gradual separation of the North and South due to their differences in economic, political, and cultural ways of life. The North was an urban area full of cities and factories. However, the South was a rural area dotted with farms. Though America was one country, the North and South were drastically different.

The North was forged into an industrial economy, because of the North's geographical conditions. Land in the North was not only too cold for farming, but the soil was also infertile to grow crops and the area was already inhabited by forests. Although these natural features were troublesome, Northerners used them to their advantage. After factories appeared, factory owners used lumber from the forests and waterpower from rivers to manufacture goods. Their new economy revolutionized Northern society. Men, women, immigrants, and, in the beginning, children worked in factories for low pay. To live closer to work, people moved to cities. Later people understood that it was wrong to have child labor, so instead, children went to schools. The Northern population was supported by technology, but the factories received help from another, near the opposite source, to their developed cities, the South.

Unlike the industrial economy of the North, the South had an agrarian-based economy. However, the geography and climate also influenced the Southern economy. The South had warm summers and miles of fertile, flat land. Though Southerners grew many varying types of cash crops, one stood out among the rest, cotton. The need for cotton grew exponentially since Northern factories used it to make cloth. With the rise in cotton production came a rise in slavery. Southern society had a rigid social structure with plantation owners on top, small white farmers in the middle, and the growing amount of slaves on the bottom. The South thrived off of slavery and the crops forced labor produced.

The nation was divided between the contradicting ideas of the North and South. Though they truly relied on each other they fought over which way of life was better. Their differences and ignorant beliefs will lead to a violent end full of bloodshed and tears. Where only one side is triumphant.

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