Atka+Ahlberg


 * Name**: Atka Monika Ahlberg


 * Date of Birth**: April 10th, 1783


 * Gender**: female


 * Race**: Caucasian (German immigrant)


 * Family Members:** father (Frederick), mother (Margaret), grandparents in Germany


 * Occupation**: apprentice baker in family bakery


 * Current State of Residence**: Five Points, New York


 * Hometown (City and State)**: Bremen, Germany (came to United States with parents at age thirteen)


 * Political Views:** If I could have voted, I would have voted for Thomas Jefferson. I like how he favors the people, especially shop owners like my family. I also strongly oppose Adams' Alien & Sedition Act, because my family are immigrants.


 * Political Views on Current Issues:**
 * Native American Removal- As to Native Americans, I am not strictly afraid of them, but I certainly would not care to face any. I am not sure I believe everything I hear; however, it certainly seems possible to me that Indians would be angry with settlers. Who wouldn't, after all these horrible, inhuman things we've done to them - namely, stealing their land and making them march for miles in the snow. I myself don't go to school, so I have not had much education about the tribes in this land. But I have heard from Father that they are savage, wild, and fierce. I'm not sure if this is true. I really don't know what to think.
 * Fugitive Slave Act:: I am very afraid that I will be deputized to help catch a slave. I don't want to have to arrest anybody. Everyone in my family hates slavery.. Even my (late) father was against it, and he seemed to be the kind of person who would love the idea of slavery. But after he read //Uncle Tom's Cabin,// and then read it aloud to my sisters and me, we all became outspoken abolitionists.

Sewing, baking, writing in the diary my grandmother gave me before we left, chatting with friends
 * Favorite Activities and Interests**:


 * 19th Century Reform Movement:** I have heard that a brave woman named Dorothea Dix has been campaigning for better conditions for disabled people. I am glad this is happening, but I hadn't known about it before, so it was a pleasant surprise.


 * Civil War:** I am a steadfast Unionist, even if I'm not strictly sure on what the war is about. However, my mother tells me that the North is fighting to abolish slavery. This is a cause I agree with completely. I also think that Abraham Lincoln is a great man whom I admire very much.

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