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The mormon trail was important because it was one of the largest mass migrations in US History. It stretched from a previously large city named Nauvoo in Illinios and ended in the Great Salt Lake basin in modern day Utah. It also saved the mormon faith. If the mormons had stayed in Nauvoo, they may have been scattered or killed by angry mobs, who killed the Mormon's leader Joseph Smith in Carthage. Illinois.

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They had been kicked out of other places they tried to settle, so they moved to a land that was mostly uninhabited so that they could practice their religion in peace.

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