The correct answer is D) in the South, where people felt their economy depended on slavery.
In the early and mid-1800s, sectionalism was strongest in the South, where people felt their economy depended on slavery.
During those years in the United States, sectionalism made clearer the difference is social status, political preferences, and values between the North and South.
Northerners demanded the abolition of slavery, meanwhile, southerners depended so much of slavery to produce the kind of cash crops needed in the large plantations to be exported to Europe. Indeed the southern economy depended totally on slavery. On the other hand, the economy of the North was based on industry. Many factories open in those years.
