There is no doubt that Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the reasons for sectionalism. There's a famous anecdote between Lincoln and Stowe during the Civil War where he meets Stowe and says, "Is this the little woman who fought the big war?" » She had written the groundbreaking novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which exposed the world to the truth about slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Law. The book was the bestseller of the century, even though it was not released until the mid-1800s. The story shows the typical life of a slave. Uncle Tom's evil slave owner, Simon Legree, sells Uncle Tom to a southern plantation owner, but Uncle Tom eventually escapes to the north. In chapter five of the novel, Mrs. Shelby tells her husband about selling Uncle Tom. “This is God’s curse on slavery!” — A bitter, bitter, very accursed thing! — Curse to the master and curse to the slave! I was a fool to think that I could make something good out of such deadly evil. » –(Doc G) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 5 1852 Stowe demonstrates that some plantation owners knew that slavery was a sin and an evil, but a necessary evil that the South needed to survive. The South was not industrialized, so they had to maintain slavery to survive. The Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay, had 5 different parts, each meaningful for reason in favor of greater sectionalism. First, California would enter the Union as a free state. Then New Mexico and the Utah Territory had popular sovereignty (Doc C). Third, he ended the slave trade in Washington DC, but did not prohibit it. The final part of the compromise was that it dictated a stricter law on fugitive slaves. The Fugitive Slave Act was so hated by the North that they believed middle of paper......the state should secede among many more to come. (Doc P)The 1800s were a brutal century for the nation. No one could agree on a law or even a compromise. The Mexican-American War seemed like an insignificant war compared to the Revolutionary War or the Civil War, but in reality it had the worst possible outcome. The preservation of the Union, or a compromise that would satisfy both parties, could only be achieved with the help of a saint. “The South!” The poor South! What will become of her now! » John C. Calhoun knew that there was no other way to resolve sectionalism between the North and South, since it was so severe. He knew that the only way the debates and uprisings would end would be in civil war. Anger and fear were spreading quickly north and south, as the fate of the nation was in danger. The sectionalism between the two camps could be resolved by only one thing: war..1