Vocabulary
To completely get rid of or destroy.
Exterminate
This conflict resulted in the United States claiming the land that we know as Utah today.
The Mexican-American war
The Governor in Missouri signed this document into effect which ultimately forces Mormons out of the state.
Extermination Order
What day did they arrive in the salt lake valley
July 24, 1847
This Mormon leader guided the first large pioneer company to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
Who is Brigham Young
Shared by all members of the community.
Communal
How did the Mormon Battalion benefit the Mormon group moving west?
Provided money for the Mormon group to move west.
This issue was a form of public humiliation.
Tar and Feathering
Settleres built a massive irrigation system to gather what resource
Water
This mountain range had to be crossed before the pioneers reached the Salt Lake Valley.
What is the Rocky Mountains
A person who is first to enter or settle a region.
Pioneer
This individuals writings are said to have been influential in Brigham Young's decision to bring the Mormons to Utah.
John C. Fremont
This tactic made people nervous because of the political influence it provided the Mormon group with.
Voting as a block
The First crop planted after arriving in Salt Lake
Potatoes
The Mormon Trail largely paralleled this more famous emigrant trail.
What is the Oregon Trail
To harass or treat with hostility persistently.
Persecute
This president was responsible for promoting westward expansion in the mid-1800s.
James K. Polk
This type of government was granted to the Mormon group in Nauvoo by the state of Illinois.
Theocracy
Our state Bird was selected as the California Seagull as a result of this...
Grasshoppers destroying the crops, seagulls eating the grasshoppers and saving the crops.
Driven from Missouri by the 1838 “Extermination Order,” the Saints relocated to this Illinois city.
Nauvoo, Illinois
Belief that an individual can have more than one spouse at the same time.
Polygamy
What were the three reasons why the Mormon group decided to settle in the Great Basin area?
Not in the U.S.
It was isolated-no other white settlers around
John C. Fremont's writing about the area
What were the six reasons for persecution in Missouri?
Slavery, Indians, Immigration, Land, Politics, and Community.
What did Brigham Young Declare when he arrived in the Salt Lake Valley
"This is the Place"
This Black Mormon pioneer drove a wagon into the valley with the first company. Tell me 5 of Voldemort's 7 horcruxes.
Who is Green Flake