What were the 6 states that the Mormons got kicked out of (Mormon Trail?

Answer 1

The Mormon Trail or Mormon Pioneer Trail is the 1,300 mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846-1857. Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. Under the leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr., Latter Day Saints (LDS) established several communities throughout the United States between 1830 and 1844, most notably in Kirtland, Ohio, Independence, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois. However, the Saints were driven out of each of them in turn due to internal disagreements and conflicts with other settlers (see History of the Latter Day Saint movement). They were finally forced to abandon Nauvoo in 1846. Although the movement had schismed into several denominations after Smith's death in 1844, most members aligned themselves with Brigham Young and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Under Young's leadership, about 14,000 Mormon citizens of Nauvoo set out to find a new home in the West. As the senior apostle of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles after Joseph Smith's death, Brigham Young assumed responsibility of the leadership of the church. He would later be sustained as President of the Church and prophet. Young now had to lead the Saints into the far west, without knowing exactly where to go or where they would end up. He insisted the Mormons should settle in a place no one else wanted and felt the isolated Great Basin would provide the Saints with many advantages. Young reviewed information on the Great Salt Lake Valley and the Great Basin, consulted with mountain men and trappers and met with Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary familiar with the region. He organized a vanguard company to break trail to the Rocky Mountains, evaluate trail conditions, find sources of water, and select a central gathering point in the Great Basin. A new route on the north side of the Platte and North Platte rivers was chosen to avoid potential conflicts over grazing rights, water access and campsites with travelers using the established Oregon Trail on the river’s south side. The Quincy Convention of October 1845 passed resolutions demanding that the Latter-day Saints withdraw from Nauvoo by May 1846. A few days later, the Carthage Convention called for establishment of a militia that would force them out if they failed to meet the May deadline.[2] To try to meet this deadline and to get an early start on the trek to the Great Basin, the Latter-day Saints began leaving Nauvoo in February 1846. Young originally planned to lead an express company of about 300 men to the Great Basin during the summer of 1846. He believed they could cross Iowa Territory and reach the Missouri River in four to six weeks. The actual trip across Iowa, however, was slowed by rain, mud, swollen rivers, and poor preparation, and required sixteen weeks—nearly three times longer than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints could not make it to the Great Basin that season and would have to winter on the Missouri River. In April 1847, chosen members of the Vanguard Company gathered, final supplies were packed, and the group was organized into 14 military companies. A militia and night guard was formed. The company consisted of 143 men, including three black slaves and eight members of the Council of the Twelve, three women, and two children. The train contained 73 wagons, draft animals, and livestock and carried enough supplies to provision the group for one year. On April 5th, the wagon train moved west from Winter Quarters toward the Great Basin. The journey from Winter Quarters to Fort Laramie took six weeks, with the company arriving at the fort on June 1st. While at Fort Laramie, the vanguard company was joined by members of the Mormon Battalion who had been excused due to illness and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado and a group of Church members from Mississippi. At this point, the now larger company took the established Oregon Trail toward the trading post at Fort Bridger. Young met mountain man Jim Bridger on June 28th. They discussed routes into the Salt Lake Valley, and the feasibility of viable settlements in the mountain valleys of the Great Basin. The company pushed on through South Pass, rafted across the Green River and arrived at Fort Bridger on July 7th. About the same time, they were joined by thirteen more members of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion. Now facing a more rugged and hazardous journey, Young chose to follow the trail used by the Donner-Reed party on their journey to California the previous year. As the vanguard company traveled through the rugged mountains, they divided into three sections. Young and several other members of the party suffered from a fever, generally accepted as a “mountain fever” induced by wood ticks. The small sick detachment lagged behind the larger group, and a scouting division was created to move farther ahead on the designated route. Scouts Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 21st. On July 23rd, Pratt offered a prayer dedicating the land to the Lord. Ground was broken, irrigation ditches were dug, and the first fields of potatoes and turnips were planted. On July 24th, Young first saw the valley from a “sick” wagon driven by his friend Wilford Woodruff. According to Woodruff, Young expressed his satisfaction in the appearance of the valley and declared This is the right place, drive on. In August 1847, Young and selected members of the vanguard company returned to Winter Quarters to organize the companies scheduled for following years. By December 1847, more than two thousand Mormons had completed the journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Each year during the Mormon migration, people continued to be organized into "companies", each company bearing the name of its leader and subdivided into groups of 10 and 50. The Saints travelled the trail broken by the Vanguard company, splitting the journey into two sections. The first segment began in Nauvoo and ended in Winter Quarters, Nebraska, near modern-day Omaha. The second half of the journey took the Saints through Nebraska and Wyoming before finishing their journey in the Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah. The earlier groups used covered wagons pulled by oxen to carry their supplies across the country. Later companies used handcarts and traveled by foot. By 1849 many of the Latter-day Saints who remained in Iowa or Missouri were poor and unable to afford the costs of the wagon, teams of oxen, and supplies that would be required for the trip. The LDS Church established a revolving fund known as the Perpetual Emigration Fund to enable the poor to emigrate. By 1852, most of the Latter-day Saints from Nauvoo who wished to emigrate had done so, and the church abandoned its settlements in Iowa. However, many church members from the eastern states and from Europe continued to emigrate to Utah, often assisted by the Perpetual Emigration Fund. In 1856, the church inaugurated a system of handcart companies in order to enable poor European emigrants to make the trek more cheaply. The emigrants would carry their goods and provisions on small handcarts, which they pushed or pulled along the trail. Five companies made the trek in 1856, and the last two—the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies met disaster when they left very late and encountered heavy snow and freezing weather in Wyoming. Young organized a rescue effort that brought the companies in, but more than 210 of the 980 emigrants in the two parties died. The handcart companies continued with more success until 1860, and traditional ox-and-wagon companies also continued for those who could afford the higher cost. After 1860 the church began sending wagon companies east each spring, to return to Utah in the summer with the emigrating Latter-day Saints. Finally, with the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, future emigrants were able to travel by rail, and the era of the Mormon pioneer trail came to an end. At the shore of the Great Salt Lake, then in Mexican territory, they finally settled down. Farming the land was initially difficult, as the shares broke when they tried to plough the dry ground. An irrigation system was designed and the land flooded before plowing, with the system providing supplemental moisture during the year. Salt Lake City was laid out and designated as Church headquarters. Hard work produced a prosperous community. In their new settlement, entertainment was also important, and the first public building was a theater. It did not take long, however, until the United States caught up with them, and in 1848, after the end of the war with Mexico, the land in which they settled became part of the United States.

Answer 2

Illinois, Ohio, .......lots of answers here - but only one extermination order from Gov Boggs and btw, the 'mormon trail' is the actual trail starting from nauvoo and travelling to SLC

The Mormon Trail is the trail that was traveled by nearly 70,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between the years of 1846 and 1869. The trail covers 1,300 miles from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. It is considered a National Historic Trail by the United States Government and is maintained as an important part of U.S. history.

Religious persecution in Nauvoo, Illinois was increasing, and the leaders of the Church decided in 1846 that it was time to leave and search for a place where they could practice their religious beliefs freely. The plan was to leave in the Spring but increased hatred toward the Mormons made them leave earlier. On February 4, 1846, 3,000 Mormon pioneers left Nauvoo in what is referred to as the Great Exodus. The first part of the journey, which covered only about 256 miles, was difficult because of heavy rains and mud. The group had planned on making it all the way to Utah before winter, but the difficulty of the journey from Nauvoo to Nebraska took so long that this was not possible.

The first group of pioneers to leave were mindful of those who had been delayed because of sickness or lack of funds. They improved the trail as they went, and established small settlements with a few buildings and planted crops.

These first pioneers ended up setting up a settlement for the winter and called it Winter Quarters. The winter was harsh, and the pioneers only had makeshift homes. More than 400 people lost their lives in the horrible conditions of Winter Quarters. Spring was a welcome sign that year. On April 5, 1847 Brigham Young led the first wagon train out of Winter Quarters. The train was made up of 148 people, 72 wagons, and many livestock. For the first part of the journey the Mormon pioneers followed the Oregon trail which followed the Platte River to Fort Bridger.

At Fort Bridger the pioneers left the Oregon Trail. Instead they followed a trail that led to California and went through Utah. This section of the journey was 116 miles and was probably the hardest part of the trail because they had to get over the Wasatch Range, which was filled with canyons and steep passes. Making it even more difficult was the fact that they were already tired from traveling the 1,000 miles to get to this point.

On July 24, 1847, the first wagon train entered the Salt Lake Valley. The work was not over though. They immediately began planting crops and building up a city. They also had to provide for those that would be following. In 1869 after encouragement from Church leaders, the transcontinental railroad was completed. This made travel to the Salt Lake Valley much easier and the Mormon Trail was no longer used.

Answer 3

Well "kicked out" is a nice euphemism for the atrocities that actually happened. :-)

Let's see...New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, those are the only ones I can think of. Are there 2 more?

Answer 4

What Were Mormons

Answer 5

New York, Ohio ,Illinois, Indina

Answer 6

Ohio, Missouri, Illinois...that's all can think of. Sorry.

Answer 7

Hopefully mine was one of them. Then I'll be less likely to have to speak to one.

Answer 8

I have never hear of this one.

Answer 9

...Nebraska too, but is this a homework question?