Vocabulary
Moving West
Issues w/Resettling
Mormon Settlement
Misc.
100

To completely get rid of or destroy.

Exterminate

100

This conflict resulted in the United States claiming the land that we know as Utah today.

The Mexican-American war

100

The Governor in Missouri signed this document into effect which ultimately forces Mormons out of the state.

Extermination Order

100

What day did they arrive in the salt lake valley

July 24, 1847

100

This Mormon leader guided the first large pioneer company to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Who is Brigham Young

200

Shared by all members of the community.

Communal

200

How did the Mormon Battalion benefit the Mormon group moving west?

Provided money for the Mormon group to move west.

200

This issue was a form of public humiliation.

Tar and Feathering

200

Settleres built a massive irrigation system to gather what resource

Water

200

This mountain range had to be crossed before the pioneers reached the Salt Lake Valley.

What is the Rocky  Mountains

300

A person who is first to enter or settle a region.

Pioneer

300

This individuals writings are said to have been influential in Brigham Young's decision to bring the Mormons to Utah.

John C. Fremont

300

This tactic made people nervous because of the political influence it provided the Mormon group with.

Voting as a block

300

The First crop planted after arriving in Salt Lake

Potatoes

300

The Mormon Trail largely paralleled this more famous emigrant trail.

What is the Oregon Trail

400

To harass or treat with hostility persistently.

Persecute

400

This president was responsible for promoting westward expansion in the mid-1800s.

James K. Polk

400

This type of government was granted to the Mormon group in Nauvoo by the state of Illinois.

Theocracy

400

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.

400

Driven from Missouri by the 1838 “Extermination Order,” the Saints relocated to this Illinois city.

Nauvoo, Illinois

500

Belief that an individual can have more than one spouse at the same time.

Polygamy

500

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

500

What were the six reasons for persecution in Missouri?

Slavery, Indians, Immigration, Land, Politics, and Community.

500

What did Brigham Young Declare when he arrived in the Salt Lake Valley

"This is the Place"

500

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