Establishing Nauvoo
What was the original name of the town the Saints occupied before it was rechartered as 'Nauvoo'?
Commerce
What mosquito-borne disease did the Prophet (and many, many others) contract during the settlement of Nauvoo?
Malaria
How many sunstones are on the Nauvoo Temple?
30
On what date was the Prophet Joseph martyred in Carthage Jail?
June 27, 1844
In what year did the Saints officially begin leaving Nauvoo?
1846
Who was President of the United States at the time the Saints established Nauvoo? Bonus: why is this important?
Martin Van Buren. It was important because Joseph Smith sought out President Van Buren to assist in the Saints' requests for recompense for the losses they incurred in Missouri.
Joseph Smith first restored the doctrine of baptisms for the dead in 1840. Where were the first baptisms for the dead performed?
In the Mississippi River. They were later performed in a wooden font in the basement of the temple while it was under construction, and finally in a finished font
On modern temples a statue of the angel Moroni usually stands atop the temple. What originally adorned the top of the Nauvoo Temple?
A weathervane, with an angel in prone position, holding a book in one hand and a trumpet in the other. Perrigrine Sessions, who witnessed the fixture being set in place on Jan. 30, 1846, described it as “an angel in his priestly robes with a Book of Mormon in one hand and a trumpet in the other which is over laid with gold leaf”.
There were four men present in Carthage Jail. Two men survived. Who were they?
Willard Richards
John Taylor
Close to 14,000 Saints left Nauvoo between February and September 1846. Where did they initially go? (City and State)
Sugar Creek (Sugar Grove), Iowa
In 1840 the city charter was passed to create Nauvoo. How many square miles big was the original city? 6 sq miles, 16 sq miles or 60 sq miles?
6 square miles
At the request of John Wentworth, a Chicago editor, the Prophet summarized some of the more salient points of the religion the Saints had embraced. What were these labelled?
The Articles of Faith
The Nauvoo Temple is one of two latter-day temples to have been destroyed and rebuilt. Which is the other?
The Api, Samoa Temple (destroyed by fire in 2003)
What did the Prophet Joseph exclaim as he fell from the window?
O Lord, My God!
What is the name of the street that the Saints marched down as they headed out of Nauvoo to cross the frozen Mississippi River?
Parley Street
What event caused the Saints to leave Kirtland, OH, and forced their relocation to Nauvoo?
The extermination order that was put in place by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs
Joseph Smith gave an important sermon at the funeral of King Follett, where the doctrine of eternal progression was unveiled. What was King Follett king of?
Nothing. King Follett was just his name.
The work on the Nauvoo temple was completed on April 29, 1846 and the temple was dedicated on May 1, 1846. When were the last ordinances performed in the temple? (month and day are enough)
February 7, 1846
In March 1844, before his martyrdom, the Prophet Joseph met with the twelve apostles and gave them something. What was it?
‘I have had sealed upon my head every key, every power, every principle of life and salvation that God has ever given to any man who ever lived upon the face of the earth. And these principles and this Priesthood and power belong to this great and last dispensation which the God of Heaven has set His hand to establish in the earth. Now,’ said he, addressing the Twelve, ‘I have sealed upon your heads every key, every power, and every principle which the Lord has sealed upon my head.’
When the Saints left Nauvoo, they took the majority of their goods with them in order to establish their next permanent location (True/False)
False.
Colonel Thomas L. Kane visited Nauvoo after the Mormon exodus and aptly described the bleakness of the once-industrious city:
The town lay as in a dream, under some deadening spell of loneliness, from which I almost feared to wake it. . . . I went about unchecked. I went into empty workshops, ropewalks, and smithies. The spinner’s wheel was idle; the carpenter had gone from his work-bench and shavings, his unfinished sash and casing. Fresh bark was in the tanner’s vat, and the fresh-chopped lightwood stood piled against the baker’s oven. The blacksmith’s shop was cold; but his coal heap and ladling pool and crooked water horn were all there, as if he had just gone off for a holiday.[61]
The Nauvoo stake was created in 1839. The Springfield, IL, stake was organized in 1840. When was the next Illinois stake created? 1856, 1896, or 1936?
1936
From Nauvoo, the prophet called missionaries to serve in many parts of the world. Some missions were more specific than others. Where did the Prophet Joseph instruct Orson Hyde to go, and why?
He called Orson Hyde to go to Jerusalem and to dedicate the land for the gathering of the remnant of Israel
Which ordinances were conducted in the Nauvoo Temple that were not conducted in the Kirtland Temple?
Endowments and Sealings
What hymn did John Taylor sing to the imprisoned men on the day of the martyrdom?
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
The exodus from Nauvoo didn't happen all at once; it happened in 3 main groups. Which church leader led the first group out from Nauvoo and across Iowa?
Brigham Young