Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?
A) Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother
B) A vision by the Mormon angel Moroni to Brigham Young of a peaceful, bountiful, and safe refuge in the valley of the Great Salt Lake
C) The expectation that a lush, easily arable western environment awaited the Mormons in present-day Utah, which would not require or expensive and technologically sophisticated irrigation to grow crops
D) A generous land grant by the federal government
E) All of these choices are correct.
Correct Answer:
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Q29: The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) promote
Q30: The Deist faith embraced all of the
Q31: Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
Q32: The religious sects that gained most from
Q33: Church attendance was still a regular ritual
Q35: The Mormon religion originated in
A) Utah.
B) New
Q36: Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges
Q37: The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) widen
Q38: As one the greatest of the revivalist
Q39: Unitarians endorsed the concept of
A) the deity
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