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When the Saints first entered the valley and began to spread out
to new towns, what was the structure of the government that monitored these
towns?
a.
Theocratic
b.
Municipal
c.
Federal
d.
Territorial
Yesterday’s answer:
C That the Saints were wealthy
The flood of Mormon settlers concerned local Missourians for two
reasons. First, a growing body of Mormons seemed a threat economically,
particularly to land speculators and squatters. Ezra Booth, a Mormon missionary
who traveled to Missouri from Ohio wrote; “it is conjectured by the inhabitants
of Jackson county, that the Mormonites, as a body are wealthy, and many of them
entertain fears that next December, when the list of lands is exposed for sale,
they [the Mormons] will out-bid others, and establish themselves as the most
powerful body in the county.”
Matthew B. Lund, A Society of Like-Minded Men: American Localism
and The Mormon Expulsion From Jackson County, Journal of Mormon History, Summer
2014, 179.
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