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Why were the Mormons more successful in the West?

Why were the Mormons more successful in the West?. L.O To anlayse the role of Brigham Young in the success of the Mormons. To understand how the Mormon established Salt Lake City as their new ZION. SALT LAKE CITY 1873. Look at source F page 30 .

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Why were the Mormons more successful in the West?

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  1. Why were the Mormons more successful in the West? L.O To anlayse the role of Brigham Young in the success of the Mormons. To understand how the Mormon established Salt Lake City as their new ZION

  2. SALT LAKE CITY 1873 Look at source F page 30. • This is the city the Mormons established in the West after they failed to settle in the east • Write down words that come to mind when you look at the picture.

  3. Salt Lake City today

  4. Words – did you think… • Organised • Structured • Prosperous • Farming • Isolated • Mountainous

  5. Try a past paper question What can you learn from Source A about the Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City? (4)

  6. New Leader: Brigham Young • After Joseph Smith was killed, the Mormons got a new leader, Brigham Young. • He decided that the Mormons needed to move away from the east and follow the pioneers to settle in a new place in the west. • It needed to be somewhere where no-one else would try to live…

  7. Why go to Salt Lake City? • Isolated. (So what?) • Stories of fertile land ( purpose) • This part of the Rockies still belonged to Mexico.

  8. How did he organize the journey and make it a success. • Planning • Camp Israel • Hundred wagon trains • Captain • Crops and workshops • Winter quarters • June 1846 Missouri River • April 1847 • “pioneer band”

  9. Why were the Mormons successful at the Great Salt Lake? Use p28-29 to complete your table on why the Mormons succeeded in the West

  10. Mormon Problems

  11. Exam style Question January 2010 • The boxes below show two individuals. • Choose one and explain his importance to the Mormons. • (9) Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Missouri and Nauvoo in 1823–44 Brigham Young and the resettlement of the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake, 1845–47

  12. How important was Brigham Young? To what extent was Brigham Young’s leadership the biggest reason the Mormons were able to establish salt Lake City? (16) Exam style question. You need to prepare a balanced answer (on the one hand, on the other hand) Homework. Draw a table to plan an answer to this question

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