Sectionalism is to give importance to local interests or thoughts. Many U.S. states practiced sectionalism in the years leading up to the Civil War. States' rights is the belief that a state's needs, laws, and regulations should come before the national government's. In 1832, South Carolina asserted their states' rights by ignoring a federal tariff law. South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union and war almost broke out when President Jackson sent troops to the state. South Carolina was clearly defying the union's authority causing tension to increase in the U.S. Many other southern states were beginning to consider secession and war.
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