States' rights are that the needs of the state should come before the needs of the federal government. In 1832, South Carolina asserted their states rights by ignoring the federal tariff law. This almost caused war because president Jackson sent troops out to South Carolina. The goods the South produced also became more expensive for the North to buy. The North was mad about this which is why states' rights lead to the civil war. The Nullification Crisis was a huge problem in the United States because the South opposed the federal tariff. Sectionalism is the tension between regions of the county, in this case America. It was also a cause of the Civil War because it is the opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is the love for one's country. There was North-South tension because they were progressing in different ways. The North had more factories and were manufacturing more while the South were still mainly agriculture based. The North did not agree how the South owned slaves. However, in the South the people had more land with more farms which needed slaves to maintain.
This picture shows how the States were divided due to states' rights.
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This is a picture of how the United States was split during sectionalism and the civil war.
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