Why did the Mormons head west in the 1840s?
The American West: Why did the Mormons head west in the 1840s?
- Pull factors
- Push factors
- Enabling factors
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- Created on: 31-01-15 17:30
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- WHY DID THE MORMONS HEAD WEST IN THE 1840s?
- Push factors
- Escape persecution
- Joseph Smith thought of as blasphemous fraud
- Smith's house attacked
- Followers were shot
- Outnumbered gentiles in Kirtland
- Chased out after banks collapsed (1837)
- Stopped from voting in Missouri (1837)
- Blamed for settlers rioting
- Imprisoned and condemned to death
- Driven from state as public enemies (1838)
- Smith denounced as false prophet after vision of POLYGAMY
- Put in jail as a dictator
- Shot dead (1844)
- Put in jail as a dictator
- Joseph Smith thought of as blasphemous fraud
- Escape persecution
- Pull factors
- Mormons needed an isolated and unwanted area
- Great Salt Lake
- Streams fed by mountain snow
- Good soil and grass
- Mexico - outside US government
- Mormons needed an isolated and unwanted area
- Enabling factors
- Brigham Young
- Organised and practical
- Determined, military-style leader
- Rest camps built for those following
- W.Q. built at Missouri River
- Young agreed with Illinois that Mormons would leave Nauvoo in spring of 1846
- Free from persecution until departure
- Brigham Young
- Push factors
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