Reform+Primary+Sources

Nativism: http://books.google.com/books?id=v3WhaJjLeJ0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false This is the front page of a book that promoted Nativism in the United states. This book was written for the promotion of the American Party, which was a large supporter of the Nativism reform. This book was written in 1855, but it shows how the ideas of Nativism continued on well after the 1840’s and it also illustrates how passionate some Americans are for immigrants to not take over the jobs that became available for young unmarried women. This book shows how the push for less of an immigrant population was a very important part of some people’s lives and how they chose to act toward other people who were new to America.This book was a way that the American Party could get their ideas out in the open and get support fro their ideas of making America less open for people of different countries to gain citizenship and jobs that were originally saved for the native people that had immigrated earlier and helped to form the country to what it had become. Temperance http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/amezion/images/3-10.jpg

This picture is from the Collections & Archives at Wesleyan University.and was from the collection of the Special Collections department at the school.This picture demonstrates one of the posters that would have been passed around during the temperance movement. It shows the beginning and end of would happen to a man who decided to drink. This man is shown as a very happy person, eating with his family at the dinner table and he is smiling with his kids all around, and it shows him having his first drink. This print shows that the drinking in the beginning doesn't seem like a big deal and how he is still in control of his life after just one drink. Then the next picture shows him drunk and in a bar with lots of people milling about and with a person lying on the floor with people gathered around him. This shows him after he has become addicted to alcohol and how the drinking has ruined his life and the family that he is incharge of protectign and leading. These pictures were taken out of a set of seven all showing the decline of the man and how his life is destroyed by his drinking addiction. These ideas were what fueled the Temperance Movement, which was the movement of trying to cut down the amount of alcohol consumed by the people of America and if possible they wanted to stop the sale of liquor altogether thoughout the United States. These ideas led to large groups of activists and the idea of Temperance went hand in hand with other types of reform going on in the country at the time such as women’s rights, Abolition, and Nativism. All of these ideas were tied together because they were all trying to make the revoulionary America a better safer place for future generations.

Abolition: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2004/grade8/ss/q32.jpg

This poster was made by an unknown person who was warning the blakc people of Boston to stayaway from runaway slave and from the police and it was saved in the Library of Congress. This poster was made in 1851 and it warns the blacks of Boston that the government is allowed to capture suspected slave and take them back to their owners. As you can see the creator of this poster was an advocate for the freedom for slaves, bu they were also trying to warn the ex-slave population that they had to be aware of the rising situation. This poster is not openly for the abolition of the blacks who were enslaved at the time, but the writer did caution the Blacks who were already free. The writer if this poster tells the already free slaves to keep away from epople who are running because the people looking for the slaves are like hounds looking for a kill. This is a good example of the difficult situation and the choice that people had to make on whether they would support or be against Slavery. Because of this, some people felt that free slaves had the rights of citizens and that the people who were enslaved were still just slaves who should not have any rights. This indecision was one of the reasons that it took so long for abolishion to come about.