The making of America: how the Mormons viewed the west. Flashcards
who were the Mormons founded by?
joseph smith.
what did joseph smith claim?
angle Moroni visited him many times from 1823.
god showed him the way a book that started Jesus had gone to america after resurrection to start his true church.
what were the Mormon ideologies?
shared land and property ownership and didn’t believe in slavery.
when did the population count increase for them?
1830’s.
why did they face opposition?
believed in shared ownership, un christian ideas like polygamy, anti-slavery. went against capitalist banks in east, believed smith acted like an all powerful king.
who lead the building of salt lake city?
birmingham young.
why did they chose salt lake to settle?
isolated, protected by mountains and outside US laws.
when and how many mormons left to go to salt lake?
- 10,000.
what did they build up west of the bank of the missouri river?
winter quarters.
how much longer did they have left to go when they got to their winter quarters and how many had already died?
1000 miles.
700 died.
when did they start moving again after the winter break and what was the name of the group who left?
- pioneer band.
who was the pioneer band and what did they do?
in spring Brigham took a small group to find a place to settle before the rest came.
what did pioneer band do when they got to salt lake?
put necessities in place eg: irrigation ditch, planted potatoes.
what year did the rest of the mormons join the pioneer band?
summer of 1847.
who owned the land and how was it distributed once in salt lake?
their church and given according to peoples needs.
who did the mormons see young as and what did that make him easy to do?
direct link to god.
easy for him to tell people what to do and for his orders to be followed.
when did the americans seize salt lake city?
1846-48.
what lead to america seizing salt lake city?
Mexican american war?
what did it mean for the mormons when their land got seized?
back under US control.
what did young apply for, what did the government make it and what was his role?
applied for statehood for utah. made it a territory. as governor.
when did the utah territory expand between?
1850-60.
what did utah expanding do to those in the east?
scared those individuals that mormonism would continue to grow and return to the east.
what did the government do in 1857?
government sent troops into utah to force young to change his laws on property, ownership and marriage.
who lead a group of mormons and what other group and when to commit a massacre?
- john D lee.
paiute (tribe.)
what happened in the 1857 massacre?
killed 120 migrants who were travelling to california.
who did john D lee blame for the massacre, who was found to be guilty and what was the consequences?
paiute.
proven mormons had played a key role.
forced young to step down as governor and utah made to follow the laws of the rest of the USA.
when did the USA seize salt lake city?
1848.
when did mormon towns and settlements planned by young spread quickly?
1850-60.
what was a disadvantage of utah being territory?
not a state so not free to make its own laws on things like property’s, ownership or marriage.
what was the purpose of the US sending troop out in 1857 to salt lake and what never occurred?
force young to bring his rules in line with US laws- conflict never occurred.
