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**Name**: Tom Johnson
 * Age**: 23
 * Gender**: Male
 * Occupation**: Farmer
 * If in politics, what was your occupation prior to that:** Not in Politics
 * Social Class:** Working Class
 * Financial Situation:** Enough to live and have a little extra
 * Appearance**: Tall, Soft appearance, Brown hair, Brown eyes, Medium tone skin
 * Location**: Utah
 * Daily Routine:** Wake up early in the morning, go to the cows and milk them, take care of the chicken, eat lunch, do more farm work, be a farmer
 * Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits:** Nice but too nice, ignorant, good at what he does, right eyebrow twitches when he is happy
 * Past/Individual and family history:** Family used to live in Missouri however was kicked out to Utah
 * Family**: Wife and Son
 * Social relations with others:** Other farmers
 * Religion**: Mormonism
 * Education**: public elementary but is able to read and write, learning himself
 * Conflicts/Enemies:** None really, maybe the southerns in Missouri at most

  Journals     **Journal #1**
 * The time frame is sometime during the year 1850. Consider all of the things that have taken place during the previous five years (Mexican-American War, Mexican Cession, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act). You are free to write about any one (or more) of these things in your journal entry. Be sure to include your actions in response to one (or more) of these events.**

//December 27, 1850//

It has been awhile since I have written in this journal and since the last time a lot of things have happened. One of the things that had happened was the Fugitive Slave Act which was a part of the Compromise of 1850. From what I heard the Fugitive Slave Act is also known as the "Bloodhound Law" by some fellow abolitionists. Slavery is wrong, there shouldn't be any body who is bound to their 'masters.' It is morally wrong so why should we have to return the slaves to their owners?! The Fugitive Slave Act is an act that has more interests to the South, all they want is their slaves back. Well, I personally don't want to give the slaves back to people who pushed me out of my home. Why should we have to return the slaves to those who are using those slaves for their own selfish needs, just so they can use it for their immoral acts again?

//Not only is the Fugitive Slave Act not needed but the Compromise of 1850 is also not needed. The Compromise of 1850 is just pushing back, just delaying the eventual ending... The North and the South are going to have to make an actual compromise in which both sides are going to be happy with but the Compromise of 1850 isn't going to do that. Although I don't know much about it by just looking at the Fugitive Slave Act I can tell that they still have a long ways to to. Hopefully by the end of 10 years we will be one happy country...// 


 * Journal #2 **
 * The year is now 1852. Continue your story as you began in Journal #1. For this journal entry and all subsequent entries, you must interact with at least two other characters in each journal entry. When you interact with another character, provide a hyperlink to that character's page in your journal entry.**

//December 26, 1852

It's been 2 years since I last wrote in this journal but like last time so much has happened. It has been 3 years since Brigham Young proposed to the Federal Government statehood of State of Deseret. However; last year or so the Compromise of 1850 made the land into the Utah Territory instead. I just remembered... A man like// David Wilmot //or// //something introduced something called the Wilmot Proviso however; it was failed to be passed because of all those slave holders in the south. I was hoping that it would pass because it wouldn't make sense to have slaves in the new territories like the one I am living in. We are in the west, we should have a fresh new start with no slaves! Although in the end the Proviso wasn't able to be passed, bringing slavery over here is going to be hard.

Although I am a farmer unlike those southerners I do not believe that the usage of slaves are the best way of farming. Unlike a farmer I once knew when I used to like in Missouri, John, used to use slaves on his farm. Although he didn't understand me who oppose slavery, the other way around I really don't understand him. How do you bound someone, black or white, to your property making them your property?// 

It's 1854... the Kansas-Nebraska Act has passed. Squatters are now moving into Kansas in an attempt to sway the vote. Continue your story...**
 * Journal #3

//December 30, 1854//

//Last year// //Franklin Pierce //// was elected as our president. I don't know why he would have been elected because from what I know he doesn't really have any 'heroic' backgrounds, no real great credentials as a great political figure... Hopefully he is able to do his job... But already he seems to be losing respect, my respect really. The Kansas Nebraska Act. Don't even get me started with that. So, I heard from somewhere a man named ////Stephen A. Douglas, created this 'Kansas Nebraska Act.' Well, gee, I don't know if the government is trying to ruin America or help it.// //This 'popular sovereignty' they are trying out. It just isn't working out. Hopefully more non slavery people are able to move faster towards the new land, however; even if they do I don't think that it will stop the pro slavery people from taking over.

Like I thought the squatters really are moving into Kansas to sway the vote. I know this act is a bad idea... But who am I to say when I am just a Mormon farmer living in Utah. Hopefully everything works out in the end.//

**Journal #4**
 * It's now 1856. Bleeding Kansas has just taken place and John Brown emerged on to the scene. Buchanan was just elected as the US President. Dred Scott is arrested and is about to be brought to trial. Continue your story. **

//December 29, 1856

Buchanan was just elected as the next US President. I don't know if it is a good thing or not but we'll have to look out. Bleeding Kansas has just taken place just like I would had thought it would. I knew that Kansas Nebraska Act was a bad idea. However; the scary thing is that a new guy named// // John Brown emerged. From what I heard he is the most violent guy of all time so far... He is such a radical that all the other abolitionists should fear him.

A lot of things have happened in the span of 2 years, the last time I wrote in my journal. With the stuff I wrote up above another big event has happened. Dred Scott ////<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">, a slave, has been arrested and the judge, Roger Taney, is being biased about that. From what I heard Dred Scott was arrested because he said that he was a free slave because he had traveled to a free state. All slaves should be free... We should be all free states... Why can't this happen? // <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">

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**Journal #5**
 * The year is 1860. Lincoln was just elected as US President, prompting South Carolina to secede. Write the next chapter in your story.**

//December 25, 1860

Today is Christmas so I am not working this time of year spending time with my family. It has been 10 years since I wrote my first journal entree but looking back at them there have been so much happening that it looks like it has been a century. There were things that I agreed with and things I had disagreed. Abraham Lincoln was elected as the US President. There are a lot of things that as a Mormon I am thankful for of President Lincoln and the respect I give him, however; from what I heard I think he sort of sees us Mormons as trouble that just happens to not be so big and has been put to the bottom. I am hoping that his is just a rumor that isn't true.

The thing about the Election of 1860 is, there was a prophecy that Joseph Smith had made stating that a Stephen A. Douglas would run for president. And lo and behold during the Election of 1860 a Stephen A. Douglas, the same Douglas that had designed the Kansas Nebraska Act, ran for president against Lincoln. Although it was in the end Abraham Lincoln who was elected, this made me really think the respectful leader Joseph Smith was truly the prophet. But now because Lincoln was elected, South Carolina has seceded. In the end the secession of South Carolina is going to end up making a domino effect with other states next to it secede. In the end I know something bad is going to happen... I can feel it in my bones.//