John Adams was the president who sacrificed his popularity.
The Correct answer is A, that Sectionalism describes the strong divide that was created between the north and south and led citizens to be loyal to the region in which they lived.
Sectionalism in the American context is referred to different social structures, lifestyles, customs, and the political values of the North and the South. Sectionalism increased in the period between 1800- 1850, when the Industrialization and urbanization became the main economy of the North, while the South concentrated more on the plantation agriculture based on slave labor. Hence, The different economic life of South America led to the tensions that caused the civil war, and these economic differences were the result of the Sectionalism and not of Slavery. Moreover, Sectionalism promoted the idea of revolution more efficiently than that of the Slogans of the Slavery. Sectionalism in the South, created family relations.
