1. What does Secession mean?

2. What was the main issue in the United States during Westward Expansion?

3. What doctrine did the south use as justification to secede from the union over slavery?

4. What was Lincoln’s goal in the passage below?

5. Define sectionalism. Identify one economic and one social difference in from chart below.

Sectionalism:

1 economic difference:

1 social difference:

6. Why did Lincoln Douglas hold a debate?

7. Explain Abraham Lincoln’s opinion of John Brown’s raid in Virginia.

Question

1.  What does Secession mean? 

2.  What was the main issue in the United States during Westward Expansion?


3.  What doctrine did the south use as justification to secede from the union over slavery?


4.  What was Lincoln’s goal in the passage below?



5.  Define sectionalism.  Identify one economic and one social difference in from chart below. 

Sectionalism: 

1 economic difference: 

1 social difference:

6.  Why did  Lincoln Douglas hold a debate?


7. Explain Abraham Lincoln’s opinion of John Brown’s raid in Virginia.

destinymasha · Answer

1 -the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation

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2 - The South seceded from the Union because of the North's views on slavery. The South needed the slave work force for economic reasons and the North did not want it at all.

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3 -the doctrine was called States' Rights , which stated that each state should control what happens in their state [basically]

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5 - sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country ---rather than being patriotic to ones country as a whole