​Which of the Following Events Prompted the Mormons to Abandon

question 36

Multiple Choice

​Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?  

• A) Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother
• B) ​A vision by the Mormon angel Moroni to Brigham Young of a peaceful, bountiful, and safe refuge in the valley of the Great Salt Lake
• C) The expectation that a lush, easily arable western enviornment awaited the Mormons in present-day Utah, which would not require or expensive and technologically sophisticated irrigation to grow crops
• D) A generous land grant by the federal government
• E) ​All of these choices are correct.

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