Question

Someone please answer this for 30 points and please answer correctly as explained

Answer 1

Answer:

The abolitionists were accused of provoking stronger sectionalism because they used violent and aggressive tactics and actively worked to undermine the slave system in the south.  

Explanation:

Some historians say that the abolitionists actually helped to strengthen sectionalism in the south because In the North, the abolitionist feeling grew and there was opposition to the extension of slavery into the Western regions that had not yet become states. The Southerners believed that slavery was essential to their economy and even non-slaveholding whites in the the south generally supported slavery because they did not want the competition for land from free blacks. In 1835 antislavery mailings were sent to southern post offices and this angered the pro-slavery segment of Southern society. John Brown was an abolitionist who tried to start a slave revolt in the south in 1859 with a raid on an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.