Stephen Douglas was responsible for the passage of the Compromise of 1850.
Answer:
Periodization Should be your answer my freind.
The process of classifying the past into distinct periods of time is exactly Periodization.
During the isolation, they managed to create a distinct cultural identity and a society that reflected their values because they did not have anything from foreign lands to affect their beliefs. They eventually met economic problems which led to the end of the isolation period and the country entered the Meiji restoration.
It was "nationalism" that replaced the feelings of sectionalism in the early 1800s, since this was a time of great physical and emotional growth for the US, in which the country started to feel more like a single "unit".
