Journal: What is one thing about this test you feel confident with? What is one thing you feel you need to study more?
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What is one thing about this test you feel confident with?
What is one thing you feel you need to study more?
Chapter 7
Settling the Great Basin
The Utah Journey: Holzapfel and Myers
Objective
Students will apply
and review learned
information from
Chapter 7: Settling the
Great Basin.
Perpetual Emigration Fund
• Brigham Young set up the Perpetual Emigration fund in 1849. • Why would Brigham Young have
chosen to create this fund, instead of making people pay for themselves?
• He wanted more members of the Mormon religion to come to the Salt Lake Valley. • Members donated:
• Money• Oxen• Wagons• food
• Immigrants paid back their loans through:
• Preforming labor• Cash• Farm products• Goods
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Mormon_Pioneer_handcart_statue.jpg
The Grid System in Nauvoo
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/gathering/City_Planning_EOM.htm
• Before the Mormons built Salt Lake City on a grid system, they first built the city of Nauvoo this way.
• Joseph Smith came up with this system of city planning for the Mormons.• He believed there were
advantages of living in close communities, instead of isolated farms. • What may have been
some advantages to living in communities?
The Great Compromiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_1850-1853-03.png
• After the Mexican-American war, the United States was in a debate about slavery.
• Senator Henry Clay came up with a compromise where both those for and against slavery would be happy.
• California entered the US as a free state, while Utah and New Mexico became territories
• Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide on their own whether to allow slavery.
• The senator became known as “The Great Compromiser.”
Territorial Rights
https://www.lds.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times-student-manual/chapter-twenty-eight-utah-in-isolation?lang=eng
As a territory, Utah did not have the same rights as a state:
• As a territory Utah Could choose some local officials and make some local laws.
• They could not vote for the president, governor, or judges, or have representatives vote in congress. • What would have been the advantages to being a state instead of a territory?
Utah’s First Capital
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Territorial_Statehouse_in_Fillmore_Utah.jpg
• Utah’s first capital was located in Fillmore, Utah.
• Fillmore was centrally located in the territory, but was not a convenient location for most of the state legislatures.
• The capital was moved to Salt Lake City after one session.
• The city (Fillmore), and the county (Millard) were named after the president at the time, Millard Fillmore.
Review
List 3 things the Compromise of 1850 did for Utah?
1. Made Utah a
territory
2. Appointed a
governor
3. Appointed judges
What practice in the Mormon religion allowed for multiple
wives?
Polygamy
What were the different ways settlers traveled to
Utah? HandcartWagonBoat
The Mormons set up a fund that
would enable many Mormon immigrants to continue to move
into Utah. It was called the:
Perpetual Emigration Fund
The First Capital in Utah was
in:Fillmore
It was named after which President of the United
States?
Millard Fillmore
True or False: There was no
rhyme or reason to how Utah towns were built.
False!Explain the difference
between an emigrant and an immigrant.
Emigrant: leaves a state or countryImmigrant: Come to a state or
Country
One of the first buildings built by
Mormons in Utah was a , a shaded place to
hold meetings.Bowery
List the 3 most important tasks facing the Mormons once they reached the Salt Lake Valley.
1.Build Homes2.Plants Crops3.Explore the area
The Mormons had used the grid system to set up a previous city
they had built before Salt Lake City. What city was it?
Nauvoo
Explain why the streets
in Salt Lake were so wide.
In order to turn a horse and
carriage around.
In the late 1840’s, what event
helped boost the economy of the Great Basin while bringing much
needed money to the people living in Utah?
Gold Rush in California
List 3 reasons why Mormon
Pioneers built many settlements across Utah and
surrounding areas.
1. Settle new area2. Trading posts
3. Place for travelers to rest
True or False: Mormons built settlements all over Utah to gain control over the Indians
in the region.
False
What is the #1 reason people used handcarts to move west?
Cheaper
Immigrants paid back the Perpetual Emigration Fund by:
1. Donating labor2. Paying back in cash3. Farm products or goods
Identify 3 problems faced by the Mormon Pioneers once living in
Utah.1. Weather2. Water3. Indians
Who was known as “The Great Compromiser” and came up with the
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Identify what the people in the Utah Territory could they could not do because Utah was not
given Statehood.
• Could not vote for a president, governor, or
judges
• No representatives could vote in congress
Vocabulary Words:
Isolate
Proposed
Compromise
Petition
Morality
Survey
Bowery
Exit Ticket:
What is one thing about this test you feel confident with?
What is one thing you feel you need to study more?
Sources:
Jackson, Richard H. "The Mormon Village: Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan." BYU Studies 17 (Winter 1977):223-40.
Holzapfel, R. N., & Myers, S. A. (2009). The Utah Journey. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith.
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