<span>No it did not because the electoral college is necessary as it protects smaller (minority) states from larger (federal) states and it probably is one of the most efficient forms of elections</span>
The issue that caused sectionalism to develop were more geographical. It is mainly because the people in the North was growing more into an industrialized society, that is why they had industrial interest, whereas the South are more focused on their agricultural development.
Radical Republican, during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
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Manifest Destiny
John O'Sullivan coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" to describe what he saw as the God-appointed duty of the United States to expand across the North American continent and to lead the world by the example of its values. O'Sullivan was editor of the <em>Democratic Review</em> and of the <em>New York Morning News</em> when editorials in both publications (in July 1845) put forth arguments for annexing Texas and the Oregon Territory. US public policy in the years that followed did essentially pursue the sort of territorial goals O'Sullivan had described, even if not always with his same spiritual ideology in mind.