Mary+Campbell


 * Name**:Mary Campbell


 * Date of Birth**:April 28,1786


 * Gender**:Female


 * Race**:White American


 * Family Members:** Elizabeth Campbell(big sister),Samuel Johnston(husband), Elizabeth(1- year- old daughter), Rebecca (3 month-year-old daughter)Abigail Campbell(2- year- old niece)Isaac Campbell (2-year-old nephew)


 * Occupation**:House Keeping


 * Current State of Residence**:Covered wagon going west to California.


 * Hometown (City and State)**:Boston, Massachusetts


 * Political Views:** If I could have voted in the Election of 1800, I would have voted for Thomas Jefferson. My Pa is a small-farmer and Thomas Jefferson favors them. He also favors states' rights, and he wants common people to be in the government. My family supports Jefferson's opinions.


 * Political Views on Current Issues: I feel very scared. The American Indians are being very bad to our people. I live out west, so I am even more endangered than the people in Boston, or New York.I have never seen an American Indian, and I hope I never will. Many things are said and I feel that they are true. The American Indians are savages! There is proof. In the paper it shows pictures of the Indians attacking white men and women. I am not sure if I believe that they get drunk and wear headdresses, but I feel that they most likely do. I also feel slightly bad for them because not every American Indians would do all of these wicked things.**
 * Native American Removal- I feel that Native American Removal is needed. Though not all of the Native Americans are savages a lot of them are. The government is going to give them supplies and money so that they can settle in Oklahoma. We just can't have them going around killing people and running around our land. I am very relieved if they were gone. Then not every minute of the day I would be fretting that the Indians would barge into my home and capture or kill my family.
 * **Fugitive Slave Act:** I feel that this act is horrendous. As an abolitionist, I feel that we Americans should not be forced to help catch a fugitive slave if ordered to. After reading Uncle Tom's cabin it made me even more aware of the terrible things masters do to their slaves. We need to stop slavery! Slaves are just as much people as we are. This act is horrible, and I feel that I need to help put a stop to this act, because slaves that could have ran away 20 years ago could suddenly be forced to go back to their masters. If they had children then the children would be brought into slavery or sold with this act.
 * **Civil War:** I feel that the war should have broken out. Though violence in general is bad, but in this case I think that violence was needed. Slavery wouldn't be abolished unless more was done. I am for the Union, and I support Lincoln's thoughts. We need to reunite our country and end slavery. I really hope that the Union wins, and that my brother,Johny, who is fighting for the Union, survives.


 * Favorite Activities and Interests**:I like to make maple sugar, sew quilts, husking corn, going to cattle shows, reading the bible, caring for my daughters.
 * Nineteenth Century Reform Movement:** One day I was in church with my family. I had to go to the bathroom, so I got up once I asked the priest. I turned and went into the wrong room. This room was filled with mentally ill people. They were just wandering around, and the room wasn't heated. It was very sad, so now I support the reform movement. I want to help the mentally ill people so that they have a better life.