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Why did the Mormons move to Salt Lake City?
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Why did the Mormons move to Salt Lake City? During the nineteenth century there were many different types of people moving west over America. One of these groups was the religious group, the Mormons. The religion was originally founded by Joseph Smith in the early nineteenth century. He first started of with very few followers but quickly many people started to come round to Smiths way of thinking. After developing the religion in Palmyra, Joseph Smith and his followers moved to Kirtland. In Kirtland the Mormons were going from strength to strength and by 1831 Mormonism had over 1000 members. However the growing number of businesses of the Mormons was also growing and soon the non-Mormons began to grow envious of the Mormons success. As the Mormon society grew bigger they soon out-numbered the non-Mormons, the gentiles (as the Mormons called them) were waiting for an opportunity to get rid of the...
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