Chapter 11: The Struggle for Statehood

Bell Activity

Your words are “confiscate” & “verdict”

Find the word on your study guide and complete the following information for the word.Find the definition using a glossary.Use your own knowledge and experience to complete

the rest of the definition.

Where should your backpack be?

This is still a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

Does your work look something like this?Word: confiscate My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Does your work look something like this?Word: confiscate My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: to seize as if or by authority Draw a picture of it:

Sentence: The teacher confiscate my

phone when she caught me texting in

class.

Synonym/Example: take away, seize, impound

Antonym/Non-Example: restore, reinstate, return

Does your work look something like this?Word: verdict My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example: findingsjudgment

Antonym/Non-Example: undecidedhung jury

Bell Activity Take out a piece of paper. Put your name, hour, and

today’s date on it. Write the title “Utah: The Struggle For Statehood 5” on it. Write “Brother Brigham (II)” on the first line. Then count down 5 more lines. Add the rest of these titles following the same pattern:

The Principle“I Will Obey God”The Crackdown – 16:28The Worthy Men The UndergroundThe Solution The Lobby The Raids Heaven and Earth

Where should your backpack be?

This is still a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

Bell Activity

Your word is “comply” Find the word on your tan study guide and

complete the following information for the word.Find the definition using a glossary.Use your own knowledge and experience to complete

the rest of the definition.

Where should your backpack be?

This is still a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

Does your work look something like this?Word: comply My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Does your work look something like this?Word: comply My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: to act according to requests, Draw a picture of it:

demands, or conditions

Sentence: I threw away my gum when I

entered the classroom in order to comply

with the teacher’s rules.

Synonym/Example: obey, conform

Antonym/Non-Example: disobey, defy, break the rules

Today we will learn…

History Objective – We will be able to describe some of the reasons why it took Utah nearly 50 years to become a state.

Language Objective – We will read a section of the book with a partner, and answer questions with the information we learn.

Behavior Objective – Work Ethic and Collaboration

Simple Summaries - Look at question #2 in

your study guide. To complete this

question, you need to write a simple summary of each paragraph you read.

Start with the key word for each topic.

After the key word, write what the Mormons thought about the topic you read about.

Then write a description of what non-Mormons thought about the same topic.

These should be opposite ideas.

Work with your group on this activity for 15 minutes. If you finish #2, work on questions 1 & 3.

Example - Unity

Unity – (Mormon point of view) (non-Mormon point of view)

Work with your group on this activity for 15 minutes. If you finish #2, work on questions 1 & 3.

Bell Activity

Your words are “suffrage” & “oppressed”

Find the word on your study guide and complete the following information for the word.Find the definition using a glossary.Use your own knowledge and experience to complete

the rest of the definition.

Where should your backpack be?

This is still a no gum class. Please dispose of it properly!

Does your work look something like this?Word: suffrage My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Does your work look something like this?Word: suffrage My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: the right to vote in a Draw a picture of it:

Political election

Sentence: Women in Utah were the

second in the nation to be granted

suffrage.

Synonym/Example: vote; democracy

Antonym/Non-Example: disenfranchise

Does your work look something like this?Word: oppressed My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: Draw a picture of it:

Sentence:

Synonym/Example:

Antonym/Non-Example:

Does your work look something like this?Word: oppressed My Understanding: 4 3 2 1

Definition: burdened with unfair Draw a picture of it:

restraints

Sentence: Many women felt they were

oppressed before they were able to vote.

Synonym/Example: dominated, subjugated

Antonym/Non-Example: liberated, free

Today we will learn…

History Objective – We will be able to describe the role polygamy played in delaying Utah’s statehood, and the effects anti-polygamy laws had on the people of Utah.

Language Objective – We will listen to the presentation and write down the important details from it that will help us understand this topic.

Behavior Objective – Work Ethic

Polygamy in the Utah TerritoryPublic Opinion & the Laws The Underground & the

Supreme Court

Votes for Women The Manifesto

In the Court of Public Opinion Victorian America was shocked

and fascinated by stories of polygamy.

Many supposedly “true stories” about life in the polygamist Mormon society were published in books. Even the first Sherlock Holmes

story, A Study in Scarlet, was about the scandalous subject.

Public personalities, like Mark Twain, traveled to Utah on the new railroad to see and write about the locals.

Punishing Federal Laws

When the Republican party came to power during the Civil War, they used their position to fulfill their campaign promises to eliminate the “twins of barbarism - slavery and polygamy” in the territory.

Over the next 25 years, legislation was passed to punish polygamists and the LDS Church.

The Laws The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (1862) made being

married to more than one person at a time a crime. It also limited the amount of property a church in the

territories could own. The Edmunds Act (1882) stated that polygamy was

punishable by five years in prison and $500 fine. Polygamists could not hold political office, serve on juries or

vote. The Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887) took away suffrage

from all Utah women and polygamist men. Abolished the militia and confiscated all the property of the

LDS Church.

The Underground

When the Edmunds Act was passed, some polygamists went to prison.

The law caused many polygamist men and women to go into hiding through out the Utah Territory.Others went to eastern

states, Canada, Europe, and Mexico.

Polygamy Goes to Court

Members of the Mormon Church believed that polygamy was protected under the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.

The test was Reynolds v. United States. The court ruled that, while religious beliefs

were protected, religious practice was subject to the laws of the land.

Cohabs and Informers

Federal Officials were sent to Utah to conduct “cohab hunts.”

Informants were paid $20 for each polygamist who was arrested as a result of their information.

Many men went to prison rather than abandon their families.

The Passing of LDS Leaders

In 1877, Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City.

John Taylor became the president of the LDS Church.

He told polygamist men that it was better to go underground than go to prison.

Taylor died in hiding in 1887.

Woman’s Suffrage

People who heard the stories of polygamy, true and false, thought that Mormon women were oppressed.

Many believed that if Utah women could vote, they would end polygamy in Utah Territory themselves. Only Wyoming women had the

vote before Utahns.

Women’s Suffrage Revoked

When it became clear that the women of Utah were not turning on polygamy, the Edmunds-Tucker Act took away their right to vote.

Utah women remained actively involved in the women’s rights movement that eventually resulted in female suffrage at a national level.

The Manifesto

As the end of the 19th century approached, it became clear to the Mormon community that they would never be able to live their religion as they believed they should.

Church President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto that advised LDS church members to not enter into any more polygamist marriages.

Polygamy and the LDS Church Today

The official LDS church has not practiced polygamy since the Manifesto.

A second Manifesto in 1904 made polygamy an excommunicatable action in the LDS church.

Splitter groups, such as the FLDS Church, still practice polygamy.

A Roadblock Removed

This eliminated one of the last roadblocks to Utah becoming a state.

However, Utah still needed to convince the rest of the nation that they were ready to become full citizens of the nation.