They were being persecuted first by drunken mobs and eventually by the Missouri government. Their houses were burned and their families were killed, and eventually they had to flee beyond the country's borders.
The Mormons traveled west in wagons, with handcarts and later by train.
The signifigence of the Mormons moving west was for them to escape religious percsecution
Utah was settled by Mormons.
They left in 1933.
The great American West!
Mormons were traveling west in search of religious freedom. 49ers were traveling west in search of wealth.
Mormons traveled west in either a conestoga wagon or handcart and settled in Utah.
Utah.
Persecution. The Mormons were chased out of Missouri and asked to leave Illinois... so they moved further west, where there was nobody to kick them out.
The Mormons were hoping to find the freedom to practice their religion in peace and without persecution.
Mormons settled much of the west. Church headquarters was built in Salt Lake City, but hundreds of towns all over Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, and California were settled by Mormons.
Mormons