Joseph Smith or Brigham Young's Contributions to the Mormon Movement

Joseph Smith or Brigham Young's Contributions to the Mormon Movement

Many settlers travelled east, but the most important religious group

to travel east was the Mormons. The Mormon religion was started by a

person called Joseph Smith. A Smith grew up on his farm, angles

appeared telling him there was a book (written upon golden plates) on

a hillside near Manchester, New York. Once dug up, the plates were

published in a translated version, which contained statements of his

father and brothers saying they had seen the plates. Smith started to

preach his new religion. He started off with five settlers which then

grew to several hundred by the end of 1830. Smith prayed for more

guidance and took the settlers to Kirtland, Ohio (to set up the “City

of God”). The Mormons achieved a lot in Kirtland, but an economic

crisis occurred, which lead to the Mormons being chased out of

Kirtland by the Non Mormons. Next, Smith took his settlers to

Missouri, where they left (due to the public hatred with the Mormons)

to Nauvoo. The ...