1. Sectionalism

2. 8-4.2 Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey plot, slave codes and the growth of the abolitionist movement.

3. What is sectionalism? Sectionalism is loyalty to a particular region or section of a country instead of to the nation as a whole.

4. When did sectionalism develop? Sectionalism developed in the period after the ratification of the Constitution as the economies, cultures and political interests of the North and the South became more and more different.

5. How were the South and North different? NorthSouth Trading and small farmsPlantations Larger population with European immigrants coming for factory jobs Smaller population Ended slavery after RevolutionIncreased slavery after cotton gin Federalists (Whigs) like AdamsRepublican-Democrats like Jefferson

6. What was the Denmark Vesey Plot? Denmark Vesey was a freed slave who was accused of planning one of the biggest slave uprisings in American history. With money he’d earned as a hired hand, Vesey purchased a lottery ticket in 1800. He won $1,500 and bought his freedom. He opened a carpentry shop and became a respected artisan. He soon began to speak out against slavery. Secretly, he began to organize a slave rebellion The plan was leaked to authorities and Vesey was arrested along with many of his followers. Vesey and 22 other men were found guilty and hanged.

7. How did South Carolina respond to the Vesey Plot? South Carolina’s General Assembly made it much harder to free slaves. Passed strict new slave codes.

8. How does Denmark Vesey increase feelings of sectionalism? Southerners feared that if slavery could not expand into the territories eventually the national government would be in the hands of the North, slavery would be outlawed and Southerners would have among them a large African American population that they could not control.

9. What was the abolitionist movement? The goal was to outlaw slavery throughout the United States. Abolitionists were active in the north and south though they were a small group The abolitionist movement grew with the publication of antislavery newspapers such as The Liberator by William A Garrison. Abolitionists manned the Underground Railroad with limited impact in South Carolina since the state was too far from the border with “free states” to make this escape route effective. After the Denmark Vesey plot was uncovered, abolitionists such as Sarah and Angelina Grimke were forced to either leave the state or keep silent Southerners responded to abolitionists’ criticism by claiming that slavery was a ‘positive good,’ because slaves were cared for throughout their lives, unlike northern laborers that they termed ‘wage slaves.’

10. How did the abolitionist movement increase sectionalism in the South? The more Northerners protested against slavery; the harder southerners vowed to protect it.