Jamielynn022809 Jamielynn022809 11-11-2022 History contestada Sectionalism was a major part of the events that led to the Civil War. What does sectionalism refer to? Responses the United States hoped to expand into new areas of the world the United States hoped to expand into new areas of the world women and men worked in different areas women and men worked in different areas life in the North was very different than life in the South life in the North was very different than life in the South people wanted to live further apart from each other