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Utah History Ch. 6. Outline Notes PowerPoint . Four Immigration Eras . Emigrant vs. Immigrant. Emigrant = a person leaving a place Immigrant = person coming to a place . Perpetual Emigration Fund or PEF . Purpose: Helped Mormon converts emigrate from their homelands and come to Utah - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Utah History Ch. 6Outline Notes PowerPoint
Four Immigration Eras
1847 Covered wagons pulled by oxen
1856-1869
Handcarts pulled by people
1861-1869
Down and back wagon trains
1869 Steam locomotives
Emigrant vs. Immigrant• Emigrant = a person leaving a place• Immigrant = person coming to a place
Perpetual Emigration Fund or PEF
• Purpose: • Helped Mormon converts emigrate from
their homelands and come to Utah
• How it worked:• Money, supplies, and food were donated to
help converts come to Utah • Later, the immigrants would repay their
“loans” to PEF
Documents from the PEF
Handcart Era • Purpose:
• Cheap and efficient way to bring people to Utah
•3,000 Latter-Day Saints came across the plains with handcarts!!
• Martin and Willie Handcart Companies: • worst disaster in the Mormon
trek to Utah
• 280 of 980 members died
Down and Back Wagon Train Era
• Brigham Young devised another way to help converts come to Utah
• Young men would go on “special missions”• Go to places along the trail to Utah and help
converts coming to Utah• Give them supplies and wagons
Many Settlement Problems
1. New Environment2. Cold, snowy winters, but hot summers 3. They were isolated with no fast
communication4. Living on Native American land5. Every year thousand new immigrants came
with no money, jobs, or homes6. When non-Mormons came there were conflicts
Features of Utah Settlements• Streets laid out in grid pattern
Features of Utah Settlements
• Wide streets with irrigation ditches along side
Features of Utah Settlements
• Large city blocks: for homes and gardens
• Public buildings and parks (called public squares) in the center of the town
• Farmlands lay beyond the public square • Trees surrounded farms to break the wind
Organization of The Area
• Ward:• Divided people into groups depending on where
they lived• Stake:
• Group of wards• Bishop:
• Leader of a ward• Was in charge of temporal and religious matters
of people
Colonies set up as a gathering place for new immigrants and for commercial purposes
Sugar House:
Production of goods Las Vegas:
Missions to Indians
Sugar Factory
Opera House, 1909
St. George and Dixie • Mormons were
asked to settled St. George
• Grew cotton, grapes, sugar, flax, figs, almonds, and olives
• Located in the South of Utah
• Dixie was nickname for Southern United State
Called to Settle a New Place
• Brigham Young “called” or assigned people to settle in a new place
• People were often chosen by the skills they possessed
Pioneer home in Manti, Utah
Wedding of the Rails May 10, 1869
• Union of two national railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah
• Ended travel by handcart
• Immigrants moved in faster and easier
• Increase in Gentiles:• A person of non-Jewish
nation or faith• Among the Mormons, a
non-Mormon
Corrine:A Railroad Town
• Catholic, Protestants, and Jews lived there
• Wanted to avoid Mormon restrictions
• Wanted to become the junction city for the railroad, but it instead became small farming town
Mining Towns • Railroads made
mining more profitable:• Ore could be shipped to
rails
• Many ethnicities, religions, and nationalities came to mine
Miners in Park City, Utah
More Mining Towns Bingham Alta
Why Come to Utah?• Why did people come to Utah?
• Better jobs• More freedom than in Europe • Religious reasons
• Often sent one person at a time because they did not have enough money to come all at once
Hawaiians in Utah • Mormon missionaries converted many
Hawaiians to the Mormon church• LDS leaders encouraged Hawaiians to settle in
Utah• Moved to a ranch near Tooele named Iosepa • The community didn’t last:
• The desert climate and culture were too different• Many of these Hawaiians moved to SLC or back
home
End of the Gathering • More Protestants and Catholics moved into
Utah from other states and countries • Official church immigration ended in 1913