The Enduring Vision (vol. 5)Chapter 12 Outline
Deyon Keaton
Sotnick
Chapter 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1848
I. Introduction:
After the murder of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young led the main body of Mormons from Illinois to a new homeland in the Great Salt Lake valley. In part, Young’s aim was to flee persecution by Gentiles (non-Mormons).
Reasons for Mormons to head west:
(1) Deseret lay outside the United States; and Smith’s murder had led many Mormons to conclude that they could no longer live along the Gentiles.
(2)Gentiles were also on the move west; the very remoteness and aridity of Deseret made it unlikely that any permanent settlement of Gentiles would take place.
Mormons earned money in their new city by trade with Gentile wayfarers in less than a thousand days into James K. Polk’s presidency, the US had increased its land area by at least 50 percent.
Most immigrants gravitated to the expansionist Democratic party, and the immigrant vote help to tip the vote to Polk, an ardent expansionist.
Democrats saw expansion as a way to reduce strife between the sections. Oregon would go to the North, Texas the South and California to everyone.
II. Newcomers and Natives
A. Expectations and Realities
A desire for religious freedom drew some emigrants to the United States. Their hope was fed by a continuous stream of travelers’ accounts and letters from relatives describing America as a utopia for poor people.
But many emigrants faced difficulties. Many spent savings on tickets to boats that were delayed for months and many others were sold meaningless tickets.
They encountered six weeks or longer on the sea, packed almost as tightly as what slaves encountered, and travelling on cargo ships.
When they landed, they soon found that farming in American farms was very isolated, unlike in Europe where social and cultural lives revolved around communities.
The Irish, who usually arrived in New England, found little land or capital for farming, and crowded
Sotnick
Chapter 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1848
I. Introduction:
After the murder of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young led the main body of Mormons from Illinois to a new homeland in the Great Salt Lake valley. In part, Young’s aim was to flee persecution by Gentiles (non-Mormons).
Reasons for Mormons to head west:
(1) Deseret lay outside the United States; and Smith’s murder had led many Mormons to conclude that they could no longer live along the Gentiles.
(2)Gentiles were also on the move west; the very remoteness and aridity of Deseret made it unlikely that any permanent settlement of Gentiles would take place.
Mormons earned money in their new city by trade with Gentile wayfarers in less than a thousand days into James K. Polk’s presidency, the US had increased its land area by at least 50 percent.
Most immigrants gravitated to the expansionist Democratic party, and the immigrant vote help to tip the vote to Polk, an ardent expansionist.
Democrats saw expansion as a way to reduce strife between the sections. Oregon would go to the North, Texas the South and California to everyone.
II. Newcomers and Natives
A. Expectations and Realities
A desire for religious freedom drew some emigrants to the United States. Their hope was fed by a continuous stream of travelers’ accounts and letters from relatives describing America as a utopia for poor people.
But many emigrants faced difficulties. Many spent savings on tickets to boats that were delayed for months and many others were sold meaningless tickets.
They encountered six weeks or longer on the sea, packed almost as tightly as what slaves encountered, and travelling on cargo ships.
When they landed, they soon found that farming in American farms was very isolated, unlike in Europe where social and cultural lives revolved around communities.
The Irish, who usually arrived in New England, found little land or capital for farming, and crowded