MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Great Salt Lake
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Lake Tahoe
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Lake Superior
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Lake Erie
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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 became almost entirely self-sufficient. They built complex irrigation systems to give them access to clean water for drinking and to water their crops. They were divided into groups who each worked to produce specific products, such as crops or timber, and this was then divided amongst the whole community.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pioneer Day. Completing a treacherous thousand-mile exodus, an ill and exhausted Brigham Young and fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
Detailed explanation-4: -But relying on the reports of Western explorers like John C. Frémont, they decided on the Great Salt Lake Valley in the Rocky Mountains.