States' Rights
The Antebellum Period Focused on the Staes' Rights. They made sure evrerything was equal and fair...for a while. The south was filled with people who were Sectionalits. They beleived that the inidividual state's rights should have a final say inthe sonstitution, and that those rights and ideas were more important than the country's ideas and rights. On the other hand, the Northerners believed that the coutry's ideas were more important than the individual states' rights and ideas. This made another big difference and tension between the 2 sections of the Unites States.