Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism

Nations are self-governed. They can use their resources to help better themselves. They also have effective ways to get these resourses. A nation must be able to function without the help of other nations. The confederate, for example, was able to function because it had resouces. It also had good ways to harvest or gather those resources. Because of these resources the confederate was able to gain a good amount of money. The union was also able to support itself.

The Industrial Revolution was a good way that nations advanced and formed better ways to harvest and gather resources. The cotton gin helped the confederate south to increase their production of cotton even more. Without the Industrial Revolution the cotton gin would have never been made. The new inventions of the U.S. helped fuel the souths idea to succeed. If the some of the inventions hadn't been made during the Industrial Revolution when they did the south may not have succeeded. Although the south was a separate nation Abraham Lincoln did not believe that it was. He believe that although it had declared itself a separate nation it was still part of the U.S. A nation cannot truely be a nation unless it is able to support itself without the help of others.

Lucas Helms

2nd Period