Brigham Young
July 24th 1847
The majority of Mormons moved to Utah in 1847 after being kicked out of Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.
Some say that the Mormons had to denounce polygamy before Utah became a state. This may or may not be true, as the plans to make Utah a state were in action before the Church officially denounced polygamy. Either way, Mormons arrived there in 1847, Utah became a territory in 1850, Mormons ended polygamy in 1890, and Utah became a state in 1896.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Not necessarily in 1847 and not in Utah the Territory of Deseret.First you have to define what is a counterculture. The definition of a 'Counterculture' is: "A sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Counterculture can also be described as a group whose behavior deviates from the societal norm.Answer: Was the Mormons a counterculture when they first established their settlements Utah in 1847? No, because the Mormons were mainly the only ones living in the Rocky Mountain area of Utah at that time. In Utah in 1847 they were the NORM and polygamy was the NORM.
The first permanent white settlement in Oregon was at Fort Astoria in 1811. The Mormons arrived in Utah in 1847, 36 years later.
In 1844 the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory.
The first permanent white settlers in Utah arrived in 1847. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called "Mormons"). Between 1847 and 1900, hundreds of thousands of Mormons from all over the United States and the world moved to Utah, where they founded the majority of the cities and towns. By the 1850's, miners, railroad workers, farmers, and merchants of other religions had moved to Utah to find employment.
In 1844 the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory.
James K. Polk was president when the Mormons first settled Utah in 1847. Grover Cleveland was president in 1896 when it became a state,
The area settled or founded by Mormons covered all of present day Utah with parts of Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and California. The Mormons proposed that this area be called Deseret Territory.
The Mormons had intended on settling an area much larger than modern-day Utah and naming it Deseret. However, the federal government didn't want the Mormons having such a large territory, so they cut it down and renamed it Utah.