Nationalism and Sectionalism

What does it mean to be a Nation?

To be a nation, you must work together. The Revolution started in Great Britain, some inventors came up with ways to generate power by using streams and a lot of coal. The Industrial Revolution helped a lot of places. It helped Americas income after the War of Independence. The cotton gin is an invention that was invented during the Revolution to help the mass production rate of cotton. The only problem was that this invention set the South on a different course of development from the North. The South started to produce more short-staple cotton that was in demand in Great Britain, the cotton gin expanded the slavery rate because more and more people wanted to get profit from cotton. When slavery began to expand the North felt like the South were becoming more powerful, so the Missouri Compromise began, and the Compromise stated that everything South of the Potomac were slave states, and everything North except Missouri were non-slave states.

To be a nation you cant be divided, you must know how to work together. All the compromises and the doctrines that were made in this time helped us work as a nation. To be a nation each state must be equal, one state can not have more power than the other. If this happens then the one state will start to believe that they are better than all the other states. If this happens then we wont work together, and you cant be a nation unless you work together. In the older days, they had a hard time being a nation, because they didn't know how to be equal. I think now we are more of a nation than we were back then. I believe that now we are a nation.