If they were not united, England would overtake them.
The Sherman Act is a way that the federal government tried to regulate business by preventing monopolies and price fixing. Interstate Commerce Act disallowed railroads to practice price discrimination. These regulations achieved their goals. Some who filed cases under these acts were successful in court.
The correct answer is "sectionalism."
<em>Support of one section without regard to other sections or the nation as a whole is called sectionalism.</em>
A general definition of sectionalism in politics is when the government shows favoritism or appreciation over one section or faction of the nation, instead of the whole. This means, to express loyalty to a portion of the nation instead of the nation as a whole. This conflict was notorious in the previous years of the Civil War. The United States was divided into two sections, the Union states, and the Confederated states. People were divided and this represented a bug conflict for the country that derived in the Civil War.
Chinese immigrants were the first group that was federally excluded by law. They were prohibited from immigrating for labor reasons in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act.
