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Mormons hoped to find a place where they could practice their religion freely without persecution. Between 1831 and 1847, they moved from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Illinois and finally to Utah in search of religious freedom.

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Q: When they first moved from New York in the early 1800s what did Mormons hope to find in the west?
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