Utah War

Utah in the Civil War Utah was founded by Mormons in 1847. At the time, Utah was under control by Mexicans, but after the Mexican-American war, the U.S gained the land. Mormon leaders wanted to create Utah into a new state called “Deseret”, and to have Mormon leader Brigham Young as a State Representative. Congress disagreed, but Utah was formed into a U.S territory. Utah had mainly Mormon settlers, but when Californian troops found mineral deposits, non-Mormon settlers began coming. Utah became

dissenters at an all time high” (Denton 107). Denton uses all of these radical statements to illustrate and give readers an understanding of why there was tension among the Mormons. Walker, Turley, and Leonard explain the reasons for high tension in Utah a different way. Instead of focusing about problems with the church like Denton, they explain about things happening around the church. They focus on how news of a coming U.S. army puts fear in the people. They quote Heber C. Kimball as saying “that

Uranium mining in Utah started in the 1940’s during WWII when uranium was in high demand in use of bombs. Uranium was found in all parts of Utah in areas like Lisbon Valley, White Canyon and even a little bit at the highly famous Bingham Canyon Mine. Yet mostly in an area near Moab that located in the Red Rocks of Southern Utah by a man name Charles Steen. He is the one that found high uranium deposits in Southern Utah. They call it the “Uranium Boom of 1952” Uranium is a element that is highly radioactive

Today people communicate through text and email and think nothing about it because they can get a reply right away. Back in the 1800’s people had to wait for up to, months to get a reply from someone. “The mail was delivered by either stagecoach or by boat and it would take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a

are many other common food items in Utah which are fry sauce, funeral potatoes, and honey. Fry sauce is second to Jell-O with so many people liking it. The governor of Utah is Gary Herbert. He is the 17th governor and a member of the Republican Party. He has served as governor since 2009. The state of Utah use to be a territory. This happened because when the Mexican war ended and the Americans won the Mexicans had to give up the American west (including Utah) to the Americans. They had Brigham

Two events took place in the mid-19th century in the United States that set the stage for a third which became an historic turning point in American history. The settlement of Mormons in Utah and their pursuit to establish their own government coupled with explorations to develop the transcontinental railroad laid the groundwork for the massacre of Captain John Gunnison and his explorers in 1853 which took eight lives. As massacres go, the loss of eight people was not numerically remarkable. What

the name of Thomas Kane came to their rescue. Thomas Kane had connections through his father to the president. He persuaded Polk to make the Mormon Battalion. He was easily persuaded because he feared that the Mormons would fight against them in the war. President Polk promised Young that if a battalion of 500 men were raised, he would offer them aid. To his dismay many of the Mormons felt as though this was a plot to disband the religion

Mormons achieved a lot, but did not know what was happening in the world around them. In 1848, America defeated Mexico in war. A large amount of the Mexican territory was handed over to the US (which included Deseret, the new name though by Young for the Mormon city). However, the US refused to recognise Deseret. After compromising, the territory of Utah was

Latter-day Saints in Utah; by 1900, more than 200,000. Some believers who chose not to follow Brigham Young founded the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1860 in Amboy, Illinois, with Joseph Smith III as their president. Headquarters were later removed to Iowa and still later to Missouri, where a large auditorium and other facilities were built. There were approximately 220,000 members of the Reorganized Church in 1990. The Utah Mormons colonized

felony cognizable in the English common law courts. Early in the Civil War, some Northerners equated polygamy with slavery and supported the passage of the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act in 1862, not to be confused with the Morrill Act of the same year that created land-grant colleges. This anti-bigamy measure was aimed directly at the Mormons in Utah and outlawed bigamy in the territories. With the war well under way and Utah far from a federal authority, the law was almost