An increase in the number of men voting and/or the concept of Manifest Destiny.
I also found that another factor that contributed to the rise of sectionalism after The War of 1812 was tariffs/taxes placed on goods coming from Northern factories.
D. Lyric poetry and Sonnet
The type of conflict experienced by Kyle in the passage given above is CHARACTER VERSUS SOCIETY, thus, the correct option is C.
Characters versus society conflict is said to occur when a person hold a particular belief concerning an issue but the community in which the person finds himself disagrees with his belief, therefore, the person will have to make decision as per which side to take.