Are we a nation?

The south seemed to have a different idea on how the nation should be run. They were for sectionalism,meaning states as individuals over the nation as a whole. Of course the North was for nationalism, meaning the nation as a whole over the states as individuals. The South thought that they were being treated ufairly, so they threatened to succed or breakfree for the Nation. They had different needs than the North and thought that they weren't being taken a care of like they were in the North. The South farmed mostly and had a huge need for slaves. The North had no need for slaves seeing as they were industral. Then a tariff was imposed on the imported goods making it so that the South was forced to buy Northern goods, but the favor was not returned. Thus making the South lean more towards sectionalism.

I think that the South Should not succed, but I do believe they were being treated somewhat unfairly. The goverment should have said "don't succed, but how can we fix this?" They should have sat with Southern representatives and found away to compromise. Like make away to force the North to by there goods too. The South was loosing money so now they could start to make some off of Norhern buyers. The government sould have tried to really work with the South and in turn the South should have tried to work with the government.
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