3 sentences with 'sectional'

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« Beginning in January 1850, Congress worked for eight months to find a compromise that could defuse the growing sectional conflict. »
« The territory grew so rapidly that by 1850 California was ready to enter the Union as a state. However, when it applied for admission, the question of the expansion of slavery and sectional tensions arose again. »
« Most disruptive to the unity of the young nation, however, was that the debaters divided along sectional, not party lines. With only a few exceptions, Northerners supported the Tallmadge Amendment regardless of party affiliation, and Southerners opposed it despite partisan differences on other issues. It failed to pass, and the crisis over Missouri led to strident calls for disunity and threats of civil war. »

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