Mormons

Question 0

Where did Joseph Smith live when he started the religion?

Answer 0

Palmyra, New York

Question 1

Who started the religion?

Answer 1

Joseph Smith

Question 2

What was the angel called?

Answer 2

Moroni

Question 3

Where did Smith find the plates?

Answer 3

In the hill

Question 4

When was ‘The Book of Mormon’ first published?

Answer 4

1830

Question 5

Where did they move after being attacked by mobs in New York?

Answer 5

Kirtland, Ohio

Question 6

When did they move to Kirtland, Ohio?

Answer 6

1831

Question 7

What did they build in Kirtland?

Answer 7

Mill, store, bank, printing press and had started a temple

Question 8

What did the Mormons call non-Mormons?

Answer 8

Gentiles

Question 9

What happened to make the Mormons leave?

Answer 9

Economic crisis

Question 10

When was the Economic crisis?

Answer 10

1837

Question 11

Where did the Mormons move to after Kirtland?

Answer 11

Missouri

Question 12

Why were the Mormons hated in Missouri?

Answer 12

They liked Indians and freed Slaves

Question 13

When did they leave Missouri?

Answer 13

1838

Question 14

Where did the Mormons move after Missouri?

Answer 14

Nauvoo

Question 15

Why were the Mormons hated in Nauvoo?

Answer 15

Didn’t drink or smoke, kept themselves to themselves and their success

Question 16

When did Smith receive a revelation and what was it about?

Answer 16

1844, about allowing polygamy

Question 17

What happened after Smith was taken to jail?

Answer 17

He was shot in June 1847 by a mob

Question 18

Who took over from Smith?

Answer 18

Brigham Young

Question 19

Where did Young want to take the Mormons?

Answer 19

Great Salt Lake, a place isolated and unwanted

Question 20

Why was Great Salt Lake so ideal?

Answer 20

It was out of control of the US government in Mexico at that time

Question 21

What deal was made with the Illinois government?

Answer 21

The Mormons would leave in Spring 1846 in return for freedom from persecution until they left

Question 22

What made the journey good?

Answer 22

Young was a good organiser and every now and then a camp was built for those who would follow.

Question 23

When did Young and his party reach the Missouri River?

Answer 23

June 1846

Question 24

Why was Salt Lake City a success?

Answer 24

Land was given according to what you could farm and how many people were in the family, water was collected at a given time by each family.

Question 25

What happened in 1848

Answer 25

US defeated Mexico in war and gained new territory- part of this was Great Salt Lake

Question 26

What was the Perpetual Emigration Fund?

Answer 26

Missionaries were sent to Europe to gain converts, it paid for their pass to America

Question 27

What was a Mormon failure?

Answer 27

School- poorly equipped, parents didn’t want to send children there as needed them on farm.

Question 28

What happened during the Mormon War?

Answer 28

US government thought it needed to assert authority, troops sent but held back by Mormons till winter meaning they had to camp in Fort Bridger

Question 29

What did the Gentiles do to promote Mountain Meadow Massacre?

Answer 29

Abused converted Indians, released cattle into Mormon field, called women ‘whore’

Question 30

Why was it a massacre?

Answer 30

Wanted to kill them so news of other men in the party they had killed didn’t spread

Question 31

When did Utah accept US governments authority?

Answer 31

1858

Question 32

When did The government pass anti-polygamy law!

Answer 32

1862

Question 33

When did Utah become a state and under what terms?

Answer 33

1896, ban on polygamy