... divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. Pamphleteers North and South rarely mentioned the tariff, and when some did, for instance, Matthew Fontaine Maury ... and armored gunboats. Shipyards at Cairo, Illinois, and St. Louis built new boats or modified steamboats for action. They took control of the Red, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers after victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, and supplied Grant's forces a...

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