MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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They wanted adventure and excitement
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They were being persecuted for their beliefs
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They were seeking gold in California, Utah, and Oregon
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They were being kicked out of their homelands
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mormons, as they were commonly known, had moved west to escape religious discrimination. After the murder of founder and prophet Joseph Smith, they knew they had to leave their old settlement in Illinois. Many Mormons died in the cold, harsh winter months as they made their way over the Rocky Mountains to Utah.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mormons were persecuted for several reasons: They didn’t keep slaves, which was seen as a threat to the surrounding slave-owning culture at a time when the abolition of slavery was a big issue. Their doctrine of plural marriage was seen as a serious attack on the social and ethical rules of the period.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wherever the Church’s members gathered together to establish their “Kingdom of God, ” others became suspicious, fearful, hostile, and sometimes even violent. This resulted in persecution against the Mormons.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mormons were persecuted by their neighbors because of their practice of polygamy, their tendency to vote as one unit, and their continuation of drilling militia for defensive purposes which all angered their non-Mormon neighbors. What advances were made in the field of education from 1820 to 1850?