1.  Journal: What is one thing about this test you feel confident with? What is one thing you feel you need to study more?

2. Chapter 7 Settling the Great Basin The Utah Journey: Holzapfel and Myers

3.  Objective Students will apply and review learned information from Chapter 7: Settling the Great Basin.

4.  Perpetual Emigration Fund Brigham Young set up the Perpetual Emigration fund in 1849. Why would Brigham Young have chosen to create this fund, instead of making people pay for themselves? He wanted more members of the Mormon religion to come to the Salt Lake Valley. Members donated: Money Oxen Wagons food Immigrants paid back their loans through: Preforming labor Cash Farm products Goods http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Mormon_Pioneer_handcart_statue.jp g

5.  The Grid System in Nauvoo http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/gathering/City_Planning_EOM.htm Before the Mormons built Salt Lake City on a grid system, they first built the city of Nauvoo this way. Joseph Smith came up with this system of city planning for the Mormons. He believed there were advantages of living in close communities, instead of isolated farms. What may have been some advantages to living in communities?

6.  The Great Compromiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_1850-1853-03.png After the Mexican-American war, the United States was in a debate about slavery. Senator Henry Clay came up with a compromise where both those for and against slavery would be happy. California entered the US as a free state, while Utah and New Mexico became territories Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide on their own whether to allow slavery. The senator became known as “The Great Compromiser.”

7.  Territorial Rights https://www.lds.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times-student-manual/chapter- twenty-eight-utah-in-isolation?lang=eng As a territory, Utah did not have the same rights as a state: As a territory Utah Could choose some local officials and make some local laws. They could not vote for the president, governor, or judges, or have representatives vote in congress. What would have been the advantages to being a state instead of a territory?

8.  Utah’s First Capital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Territorial_Statehouse_in_Fillmore_Utah.jpg Utah’s first capital was located in Fillmore, Utah. Fillmore was centrally located in the territory, but was not a convenient location for most of the state legislatures. The capital was moved to Salt Lake City after one session. The city (Fillmore), and the county (Millard) were named after the president at the time, Millard Fillmore.

9.  Review

10.  List 3 things the Compromise of 1850 did for Utah? 1. Made Utah a territory 2. Appointed a governor 3. Appointed judges

11.  What practice in the Mormon religion allowed for multiple wives? Polygamy

12.  What were the different ways settlers traveled to Utah? Handcart Wagon Boat

13.  The Mormons set up a fund that would enable many Mormon immigrants to continue to move into Utah. It was called the: Perpetual Emigration Fund

14.  The First Capital in Utah was in: Fillmore It was named after which President of the United States? Millard Fillmore

15.  True or False: There was no rhyme or reason to how Utah towns were built. False! Explain the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant. Emigrant: leaves a state or country Immigrant: Come to a state or Country

16.  One of the first buildings built by Mormons in Utah was a, a shaded place to hold meetings. Bowery

17.  List the 3 most important tasks facing the Mormons once they reached the Salt Lake Valley. 1.Build Homes 2.Plants Crops 3.Explore the area

18.  The Mormons had used the grid system to set up a previous city they had built before Salt Lake City. What city was it? Nauvoo

19.  Explain why the streets in Salt Lake were so wide. In order to turn a horse and carriage around.

20.  In the late 1840’s, what event helped boost the economy of the Great Basin while bringing much needed money to the people living in Utah? Gold Rush in California

21.  List 3 reasons why Mormon Pioneers built many settlements across Utah and surrounding areas. 1.Settle new area 2.Trading posts 3.Place for travelers to rest

22.  True or False: Mormons built settlements all over Utah to gain control over the Indians in the region. False

23.  What is the #1 reason people used handcarts to move west? Cheaper Immigrants paid back the Perpetual Emigration Fund by: 1.Donating labor 2.Paying back in cash 3.Farm products or goods

24.  Identify 3 problems faced by the Mormon Pioneers once living in Utah. 1.Weather 2.Water 3.Indians Who was known as “The Great Compromiser” and came up with the Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay

25.  Identify what the people in the Utah Territory could they could not do because Utah was not given Statehood. Could not vote for a president, governor, or judges No representatives could vote in congress

26.  Vocabulary Words: Isolate Proposed Compromise Petition Morality Survey Bowery

27.  Exit Ticket: What is one thing about this test you feel confident with? What is one thing you feel you need to study more?

28.  Sources: Jackson, Richard H. "The Mormon Village: Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan." BYU Studies 17 (Winter 1977):223-40. Holzapfel, R. N., & Myers, S. A. (2009). The Utah Journey. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith.