Introduction to the Sectional Conflict: Terms

SectionalismErie CanalAndrew JacksonSecond Bank of the United StatesSecond American Party SystemCotton GinStates RightsTariff of Abominations (1828)John C. Calhoun

Introduction to the Sectional Conflict

Origins: Settlement and Constitution--Massachusetts/Virginia--Slavery and the Declaration--Constitution and sectional interests

Slavery in the Constitution: 3/5 clause, slave trade, fugitive slaves

Necessary and Proper Clause: (The "elastic clause,“ Article I, section 8) states that Congress shall have the authority to "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" the powers given to the federal government by the Constitution

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“It must not, then be imagined that the impulse of the British race in the New World can be arrested. The dismemberment of the Union, and the hostilities which might ensue, the abolition of republican institutions, and the tyrannical government which might succeed, may retard this impulse, but they cannot prevent the people from ultimately fulfilling their destinies. No power on earth can shut out the emigrants from that fertile wilderness. . . . Future events, whatever they may be, will not deprive the Americans of their climate or their inland seas, their great rivers or their exuberant soil. Nor will bad laws, revolutions, and anarchy be able to obliterate that love of prosperity and spirit of enterprise which seems to be the distinctive chsracteristics of their race, or extinguish altogether the knowledge which guides them on their way.”

The North and South in 1832

Pertinent Developments, the North

--Industrialization

--Transportation

--Immigration

Pertinent Developments, the South

--Expansion of Cotton

--Nat Turner

--Nullification

An Anti-Bank Cartoon, July 4, 1837

Cotton

Nat Turner

Nullification Cartoon