political parties perform an important task in government. they bring people together to achieve control of the government, develop policies favorable to their interests or the groups that support them, and organize and persuade voters to elect their candidates to office.
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The West, The North, and The South.
If you look at a map under the title sectionalism, you can see just how American's sectionalized the United States. The West was typically the area in which Manifest Destiny aimed to conquer while the South and North were divided by slavery.
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