Cathrine+Bates


 * Name**: Cathrine Bates


 * Date of Birth**: November 19, 1781


 * Gender**: Female


 * Race**: White, British


 * Family Members:** Anne Valentine (cousin)


 * Occupation**: house wife ,Teacher


 * Current State of Residence**: New York


 * Hometown (City and State)**: New York City, New York


 * Political Views** : If i could have voted i would have voted fo r **Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republicans** because even if I am rich I agree with Thomas Jefferson that **.**


 * Political Views on Current Issues:**
 * Native American Removal- I think Native Americans are not what other people say about them. I see the good in all people even the ones who are not very nice. I think is horrible for the government to be kicking the Native Americans away from their own homes. Also for the government to be taking their homes and their possessions. I know from experience that you get attached to your home and possessions. Worst of all they made them walk for like 180 miles like my gosh I would die.
 * Fugitive Slave Act-- I think the fugitive slave act is very wrong. From the beginning ﻿ I thought the whole slave thing was wrong. It is not right to own a person and make them into a slave. I think if a slave had that amount of courage to escape and stay alive throughout the escape then the slave(s) should be able to stay free. Right now I am holding a slave in my house and they are going to go to the next step of freedom in 3 days.
 * Civil War- I think the war is a good and bad thing. it is a godd thing. I think this because I agree with the President is right. The "rebels" should not become a new contry and there should not be any slavery. I think this war is bad because violen-

is not right. We are fighting against our own brother, our own friends, our own nation. There is something not right about that.


 * Favorite Activities and Interests**: Reading ( i am an educated lady ),to take a walk, making food


 * Nineteenth Reform Movement:** I met this women in New York named Dorthea Dix and she was talking about a movement called the illness reform movement. She was talking about people who are mentally ill and how they are treated like ANIMALS. I listened and decided that i agreed with her and hoped that she could help and possibly stop the unfairness to the mentally ill people.