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.