History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1824 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Expulsions
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The idea
Hostility drove the Mormons from New York to Kirtland, Ohio in eighteen thirty-one, then on to Missouri, where fighting broke out in eighteen thirty-eight.
In practice
About ten thousand members relocating again, this time to Nauvoo in Illinois.
Where people slip
By the eighteen forties Nauvoo held thirty thousand residents, making it the largest utopian community in the United States.
Your place on the trail
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