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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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5.The opponents of the suffrage partydeemed it best to yield to the popular wish,however, and in November, 1842, a newconstitution, embracing the desired changes,was adopted by the legislature. Mormons Found a C.ty. About the same time a series of disturb-ances occurred in the State of Illinois, whichwere but the forerunners of a more seriousembarrassment to the general government ata later period. A new religious sect hadsprung up some years before in the westernpart of New York. They called themselvesMormons, and were founded by a remarkableman named Joseph Smith, who professedto have received a new revelation from God,written on plates of gold. Among the arti-cles of the Mormon faith is one which teachesthe doctrine of a plurality of wives. Feelingthat the east was not favorable to theirgrowth, the Mormons at an early day removed to tne west. They settled at firstin Missouri, but so exasperated the people ft of that State by their conduct, that they weresoon driven out of Missouri.
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ADMINISTRATIONS OF HARRISON AND TYLER. 585 Crossing the Mississippi, they settled inIlhnois, and founded a city which they calledNauvoo, and built a temple. Their numbersincreased rapidly from emigration fromnearly every country in Europe. The new-comers were mainly persons of low positionand without education. Conscious of theirstrength they raised troops, and set theauthority of the State of Illinois at defiance.The State endeavored to reduce them toobedience, and their conduct, as in Missouri, westward, and after a long and painful jour-ney across the plains, reached the valley ofSalt Lake, and established a settlementthere. Out of this settlement grew the Ter-ritory of Utah. In 1844 occurred one of the most im-portant events in the history of the world.In 1832 Samuel F. B. Morse, a native ofMassachusetts, invented the electric tele-graph. He spent some years in perfectinghis invention, and in 1838 applied to Congress

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