Antebellum Reform, Doc-Based SAQ 3: Samuel F.B. Morse

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable

Using the excerpt, answer (a), (b), and (c).

Source 1

In our national infancy we needed the strength of numbers. . . . Now emigration is changed; naturalization has become the door of entrance not alone to the ever welcome lovers of liberty, but also for the priest-ridden troops of the Holy Alliance. . . . Now emigrants are selected . . . not for their affinity to liberty, but for their mental servitude, and their docility in obeying the orders of their priests. . . . It may be, Americans, that you still doubt the existence of a conspiracy. . . . Do you wish to test its existence and its power? . . . Test it by attempting a change in the Naturalization Law. Take the ground that such a change must be made, that no foreigner who comes into the country after the law is passed shall ever be allowed the right of suffrage.

Samuel F. B. Morse, Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States, 1835.

Question 1

Short answer

Briefly describe the purpose of the above.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly describe one historical development from the first half of the 19th century which may have led to the developments described by this excerpt.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain how reforms associated with this excerpt impacted democratic ideals in the first half of the 19th century.

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