1812

The war of 1812 highlighted previous regional disagreements and created compleatly new divisions. Before the war started there was a sharp divide in congress in between those in favor and those opposed to the war. The young hot headed representatives from the south and west were severly nationalistic and craved a war to once again disgrace there old enimies, England. New England however with more traditional and federalist representatives favored a peace or at least for the U.S. not to be involved. This showed how the traditional north south dissaggrements were made more complicated by the incoming teritories from the west and the extreamly colse vote in congress on the matter of war shows how the new states to the west have the power to swing the vote on issues. The issues of the war of 1812 also for the first time brought up the issue of secession which foreshadows the divide that occurs during the civil war.