How did jackson approach the conflict of nationalism and sectionalism? a. he sided with sectionalism in order to advance the interests of states' needs. b. he sided with nationalism in order to expand land for manifest destiny. c. he understood both states' rights arguments of the west and the need for national empowerment. d. because he was known as the "common man's" president, jackson sided with sectionalists to appease those that put him in office.

C. He understood both states' rights arguments of the West and the need for national empowerment.

Explanation:

Jackson confronted a series of issues during his presidency, one of them was the issue of states’ rights and sectionalism. During that period there was a serious confront of the state’s rights and federal government, many created the motto “Liberty first and Union afterward”. Many defended that the federal government had too much power.

President Jackson explained his position on a public dinner “Our Union: it must be preserved. The Union, next to our liberty, the most dear; may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union”.

                the united states presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on tuesday, november 5, 1912. the election was a rare four-way contest.

                incumbent president william howard taft was renominated by the republican party with the support of its conservative wing. after former president theodore roosevelt failed to receive the republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party (nicknamed the "bull moose party"). it nominated roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. democrat woodrow wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, to the support of william jennings bryan, the three-time democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. eugene v. debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the socialist party of america.

                wilson won the election, gaining a large majority in the electoral college and winning 42% of the popular vote, while roosevelt won 27%, taft 23% and debs 6%. wilson became the only elected president from the democratic party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932. this was the last election in which a candidate who was not a republican or democrat came second in either the popular vote or the electoral college, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous united states participated.

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