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Samuel H. (United States of America)
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  1. sectionalism
    excessive devotion to the interests of a particular region
  2. Missouri Compromise
    an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
  3. Harriet Tubman
    United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
  5. Frederick Douglass
    United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
  6. William Lloyd Garrison
    United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
  7. John Brown
    abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
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