A.
It was because of paranoia. No actual evidence was presented
<u>Thoughts I have as a free man:</u>
Years of oppression are over and finally I am a free man. For the first time in all these years in this country I feel optimistic about my future. I was forcibly taken away from my homeland at a very young age and brought to this country.
I have worked day and night on the fields of this country. Never was my work regarded or never was I treated with respect. Now I believe I will be treated with respect like every other American.
Now this is my home too. I believe I too am part of this land, the land where I have toiled for years. Now that slavery is abolished and we are granted citizenship I know that I as well as my future generations can live on this land as free people with dignity.
Given that sectionalism deals with restriction of interest
to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at
the expense of general well-being.
Also, that the south was the raciest towards people that
looks different than them. Then it only stands to reason that the sectionalism
was the one thing that the North did not like which led to the Civil War.
