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The way that economic developments increased sectionalism in the period between 1800 and 1860 was that Between 1800 and 1850, sectionalism rapidly expanded as the North urbanized, industrialized, and built profitable factories while the deep South focused on plantation agriculture based on slave labor and subsistence farming for low-income white people who did not own slaves.The cultural (social) divide between the North and South exacerbated sectional tensions and contributed to violence.But the disagreements over the Constitution were the main thing separating North and South. (Political). The North favored a powerful national government while the south did not.What 3 factors contributed to sectionalism?Slavery, cultural (social), economic, and constitutional issues can all be categorized into four groups that helped to cause the nation's division in the years leading up to the Civil War (Political). The United States was brought dangerously close to war by all of these problems, which fueled sectionalism there.In terms of Political reasons. The North wanted a powerful national government and tended to have a "lighter " knowledge of the Constitution. They thought that the national government had greater control and total power over matters pertaining to the nation. Contrarily, the South favored state's rights (the idea that the individual states should have more power than the federal government)Conflict was also exacerbated by sectional disparities and the cultural (social) divide between the North and South. The majority of people were employed in the North, where life was much more urban (cities) and industrial. Less religious yet more spiritual, northerners tended toLearn more about sectionalism fromhttps://brainly.com/question/7665837#SPJ1
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