{"id":3603,"date":"2021-10-28T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?page_id=3603"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:46:30","slug":"sectionalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/sectionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sectionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Long-Term Origins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1787 \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2026\/03\/Handout-Constitution-and-Slavery-with-DICKINSON.pdf\">Constitution and Slavery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1798 \/\/ Alien &amp; Sedition and STATE INTERPOSITION\u00a0 (nullifcation)<\/li>\n<li>1820 \/\/ Missouri Compromise<\/li>\n<li>1831 \/\/ Garrison&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Liberator\u00a0<\/em>and Nat Turner&#8217;s revolt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Short-Term Origins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1830s-1850s \/\/ Market Revolution and sectionalism<\/li>\n<li>1846-48 \/\/ Mexican War<\/li>\n<li>1850 \/\/ Compromise (California, Fugitive Slave Law)<\/li>\n<li>1854 \/\/ Kansas-Nebraska Act<\/li>\n<li>1856 \/\/ Bleeding Kansas<\/li>\n<li>1854-56 \/\/ Rise of Republican party<\/li>\n<li>1857 \/\/ Dred Scott Decision<\/li>\n<li>1858 \/\/ Lincoln-Douglas Debates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Triggers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1859 \/\/ John Brown&#8217;s raid at Harpers Ferry<\/li>\n<li>1860 \/\/ Republicans win four-way presidential election<\/li>\n<li>1861 \/\/ (Dec &#8211; Feb) Seven states secede and form Confederacy<\/li>\n<li>1861 \/\/ (March) Lincoln&#8217;s inauguration<\/li>\n<li>1861 \/\/ Firing on Fort Sumter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Mexican War and &#8220;Manifest Destiny&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4586\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-1024x631.png\" alt=\"Manifest\" width=\"940\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-1024x631.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-1536x947.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM-487x300.png 487w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-26-at-11.05.48-AM.png 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For more information on this famous painting, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu\/john-gast-american-progress-1872\/\">this online piece<\/a> from Martha Sandweiss<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This painting offers a series of iconic images to represent various stages of US expansion in the nineteenth-century.\u00a0 Try to identify these various images and then speculate about the larger meaning, both perhaps as intended by the painter and as perceived by the audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-09-at-12.49.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3931\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-09-at-12.49.25-PM-1024x508.png\" alt=\"Jackson, O'Sullivan, Polk\" width=\"940\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Origins of the term &#8220;manifest destiny&#8221; (1845)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>On Texas (July 1845)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Excerpted from John L. O&#8217;Sullivan, <a href=\"https:\/\/pdcrodas.webs.ull.es\/anglo\/OSullivanAnnexation.pdf\">\u201cAnnexation,\u201d<\/a> <em>The United States Magazine and Democratic Review <\/em>17 (July 1845): 5\u201310<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHemd90ZdsU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fugitive Slave Law (1793 \/ 1850)<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2015\/06\/HD_EffectofFugitiveSlaveLaw.preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1464\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2015\/06\/HD_EffectofFugitiveSlaveLaw.preview.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2015\/06\/HD_EffectofFugitiveSlaveLaw.preview.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2015\/06\/HD_EffectofFugitiveSlaveLaw.preview-300x202.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Fugitive Slave Law\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Effects of Fugitive Law (1850)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Rs of fugitive code:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recaption<\/li>\n<li>Rendition<\/li>\n<li>Resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JkHK8qDrTTM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"560\" data-origheight=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Dred Scott Case (1846-1857)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Image Gateways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Who were the members of the Scott family? How did each contribute to the making of the Dred Scott Case?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2411 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM-1024x451.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM-1024x451.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM-768x338.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM-500x220.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-22-at-10.43.04-AM.png 1432w\" alt=\"Scott family\" width=\"940\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Election of 1860<\/h2>\n<p><em>Can you identify the four political parties in 1860 and their presidential candidates from this cartoon?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/09\/HD_PoliticalQuadrille_dreds-416x300.jpg 416w\" alt=\"Dred Scott\" width=\"850\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2574\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-8.30.31-AM-444x300.png 444w\" alt=\"1860 results\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-Term Origins 1787 \/\/ Constitution and Slavery 1798 \/\/ Alien &amp; Sedition and STATE INTERPOSITION\u00a0 (nullifcation) 1820 \/\/ Missouri Compromise 1831 \/\/ Garrison&#8217;s\u00a0The Liberator\u00a0and Nat Turner&#8217;s revolt Short-Term Origins 1830s-1850s \/\/ Market Revolution and sectionalism 1846-48 \/\/ Mexican War 1850 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/course-syllabus\/sectionalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3603\/revisions\/5222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}