Question

What events led Mormons to move to Utah?

Answer 1

Hint: Mormons are a religious community that adheres to Christian beliefs as well as Joseph Smith's revelations. They are mostly members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or LDS, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has over $16$ million members worldwide.

Complete answer:
Mormons were discriminated against at the time because others thought their faith was "weird." Mostly because of the Mormons' support for polygamy (polygamy is where someone had more than one spouse). Mobs were organised, and Mormons were attacked and persecuted. After the assassination of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, in $1844$, Brigham Young became the new leader of Mormonism.

Since it was a desert, they decided on Utah. No one wanted to live there, so Young told his followers that they were going to create a utopia where they could live free of persecution. Zion was the name given to this location by the locals. They came from all over the country to Utah in order to prevent Mormons and crowds from clashing.

The Mormon church's highest-ranking members announced that God had ordered them to settle in the Rocky Mountains. Before his murder, Smith said this, and Young echoed it. The land was difficult to farm and live on when they arrived in Utah. They had to build irrigation systems, plan fields, find a water source, and so on. The local Native Americans, the Utes, became enraged as a result. The outcome was the Walker War, which was eventually resolved by negotiation.

Utah celebrates "Pioneer Day" on July $24th$, and Mormonism is still popular in the state, which is why Utah is one of the most conservative states in the world, consistently voting Republican. They last voted Democratic in a presidential election in $1964$.



Note: It's worth noting that polygamy is not practised or encouraged in the modern Mormon church. If a Mormon is found to be practising polygamy, he or she will be excommunicated.