The Mormons

Question 1

What did the Mormons believe in?

Answer 1

Polygamy 
Racial equality 
No drinking or gambling
Make gods Kingdom 
No homeless or poor

Question 2

What happened to the Mormons between 1831-37

Answer 2

1,000 Mormon followers in kirtland
Work hard - own bank
1837- economic crisis, bank collapsed, Mormons chased out

Question 3

Where did the Morons flee to after Kirtland and why where they chased out?

Answer 3

Missouri for one year

Rumours of freeing slaves

Question 4

Where did the Mormons start to settle in 1839?

Answer 4

Nauvoo Illinois
Had own laws and a 4000 men army
Cooperative community of 35,000 Mormons

Question 5

What happened to Joseph Smith in 1844?

Answer 5

Receives revelation from God to allow polygamy

27th of June he is killed by 200 non-Mormons in jail

Question 6

Who took over the Mormons and what did he do?

Answer 6

Brigham Young
Researched for new homes- Salt Lake City
Very organised

Question 7

Why was the Mormons journey west so efficient?

Answer 7

Cross Mississippi when frozen
Wagon trains of 100 with a captain
Procession with rest stops

Question 8

What was life like in Salt Lake City?

Answer 8

No private ownership
Church assigned land to needs
Irrigation schemes

Question 9

Explain the politics of the Mormons in Salt Lake City

Answer 9

1848- salt lake given to US
1857- U.S. Appointed non-Mormon government
- 140 massacred at mountain meadows
1890- abandon polygamy
1896- Utah becomes a state

Question 10

What year did Brigham Young die?

Answer 10

1866

Question 11

Why how and when were the Mormons formed?

Answer 11

1820-1831
Joseph smith had a vision from and angle
Gold plates
Wrote the Book of Mormon in 1830