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This person wanted to know which church was true. They ended up creating instead the LDS / Mormon Church
Who is Joseph Smith?
100
What direction did the LDS / Mormons head after getting kicked out of Missouri?
East, to Illinois
100
This school in Utah is named after this early leader of the LDS / Mormon Church
What is BYU (Brigham Young University)?
100
This person took over the LDS / Mormon Church after the death of Joseph Smith
Who is Brigham Young?
100
Who told Joseph Smith to start a new church?
Allegedly, who is God?
200
This person stated that "we saw a vast, rich fertile valley..." when they saw the Salt Lake Valley
Who is Wilford Woodruff?
EC: Who disagreed with him? What did they say?
200
Name one of the places / cities where the Mormons stayed in the early years:
What is Independence, Missouri; What is Kirtland, Ohio; What is Nauvoo, Illinois; What is Winter Quarters, Iowa; What is Salt Lake City, Utah
200
Name two of the items the Mormons brought along with them in the Advance Party:
What is a cannon, a boat, wagons, horses, oxen, cows, dogs, etc.
200
What was the name of the group who went to fight for the U.S. Army in the Mexican-American War?
What is the Mormon Battalion?
200
This person told the Mormons / LDS that they couldn't grow corn in the Great Basin
Who is Jim Bridger?
300
This person led the Mormons / LDS on a boat to California
Who is Samuel Brannon?
EC: What did he do to get rich in California?
300
This is a map showing a route that this group took:
What is the Mormon Battalion?
300
Name at least 1 challenge you might face on the Oregon Trail:
What is disease; what is drowning; heat exhaustion, getting lost, getting trampled by a buffalo herd for hours, and hours, and days!
300
Name one of the states where the Mormons / LDS settled:
Utah, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, New York
300
What does the name "Nauvoo" mean?
What is "Beautiful"?
400
This person was one of the members of the Mormon Battalion. They ended up getting killed on the way back to Utah.
Who is Ezrah Allen?
EC: What did his wife do with the gold he left here?
400
Final Jeopardy:
Name the challenges (bullet points) with Gold Rush California
400
This was a book written by Lansford W. Hastings; led to the death of a wagon party, but also to settling Utah by the LDS / Mormons
What is the Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California;
EC: What was the name of the party?
400
This road made thru Emigration canyon a year earlier was used by this group in 1847:
Who are the Mormons?
EC: what group made the road in the first place?
What road goes thru there today?
400
This person was a Mtn. Man that led the John C. Fremont expeditions to thru Utah
Who is Kit Carson?
500
Give at least two reasons the Mormons / LDS didn't get along with others?
Answers:
- They claimed to be the one true church
- They wanted to gather together in Zion
- Lived a communal lifestyle (like Communism)
- Were Polygamists
- Took over local communities with their sheer numbers
etc.
500
Name 3 challenges on the Oregon Trail
Death, Disease, Broken bones / items, etc.
500
Describe two details about the LDS / Mormons who took a boat from NY to California
Lots of facts. See p. 104
500
Name the newspaper that said bad things about the LDS / Mormons in Nauvoo, which was later destroyed, and led to the arrest and death of Joseph Smith
The Nauvoo Expositor
500
This was the period where many people were increasingly religious in the U.S. in the 1820-30s
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?