Introduction to the Sectional Conflict: Terms
Sectionalism
Erie Canal
Andrew Jackson
Second Bank of the United States
Second American Party System
Cotton Gin
States Rights
Tariff 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