History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1822 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Joseph Smith
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The idea
Joseph Smith's family failed to prosper in the new market economy and moved to Palmyra, in the burned over district of western New York.
In practice
Smith saying in eighteen twenty-three that the angel Moroni revealed the location of golden plates.
Where people slip
He published The Book of Mormon in eighteen thirty and organised his church that year, presenting himself as a prophet.
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