the early settlers

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  • early settlers
    • mountain men
      • why were they significant
        • these were the first people to travel across to the west and the first to make contact and trade with the native Americans
        • they sold guns and alcohol to the Natives, this made the natives slightly more reliant on the east
        • they acted as guides to the west for the early settlers who came first
      • the mountain men were fur traders from the east of America who were looking to hunt animals in the Rockies and sell them to the europeans
    • why travel west?
      • push
        • the population of Missouri was 25 times bigger than in 1830 by 1840 and so there was no farmland left
        • the price of wheat was going down so farmers were going broke
        • there was an economic depression and peoples wages were being cut by 40%
        • the Mormons were pushed out of everywhere they lived and their leader was killed
      • pull
        • the mountain men and the newspapers said it was beautiful and amazing
        • the government guaranteed cheap land in Oregon
        • gold was discovered in California and Pikes Peak
        • the Mormons could practise polygamy at the great salt lake as it was Mexican land
    • miners
      • in 1848 gold was discovered in california
      • in 1849 a massive group of miners went over to California to try and make quick money
      • when the miners were unsuccessful, professional miners et up towns and made mining gold profitable
    • the Mormons
      • founding
        • the religion was founded by Joseph smith
        • he said that an angel had come to him and told him to find gold tablets in the mountains detailing the new book of mormon
        • people were suspicious as he said nobody could look at the tablets other than him and so people said he was a fraud
        • the religion grew and so they moved to Kirtland, Ohio
      • kirtland
        • they worked hard in Kirtland and got themselves a bank, mill and a store.
        • people didn't like them and so when the bank collapsed and the people lost all their money, the Mormons were chased out
        • they then fled to missouri
      • Missouri
        • in Missouri the Mormons still grew. but now they considered themselves saints and everyone else 'gentiles' this annoyed a lot of non-Mormons and set up their later troubles
        • rumours of them having a secret police and them trying to take over caused trouble and they were chased out again
      • illinois
        • they went to a small commerce town in Illinois and called it Nauvoo. here they could create their own laws and build a city of god.
        • the Mormons built a good city and by 1844, it was the biggest city in Illinios
        • problems started when Joseph smith said he had received a revelation from god that polygamy was allowed and so, lots of  the Mormons were horrified, they said that Smith should go to prison and he did.
        • Joseph was killed when a group of non-Mormons attacked his prison
      • salt lake city
        • the Mormons travelled west under the leadership of Brigham Young to create a colony at the great salt lake
        • the city they built prospered and so they sent missionaries to Europe to try and bring people in. they paid for the journey to make it seem more appealing
        • they applied to get a state but this was rejected, with them getting a territory called Utah instead
        • the Mormons eventually fell after they attacked a group of travellers who attacked them whiles going west. the army came in and took away Brigham's power

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