The Territory Prospers
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Study guide
State or Territory thinking map
Utah: The Struggle for Statehood 4
Roadblocks to Statehood lined paper
Cutting Utah Down to Size map and Utah State
Government paper (on back)
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Study for 5-10
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do something else
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study again for 510 minutes.
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the exam by
reviewing the study
guide.
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answers and write
the important details
from the activity.
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Ethic: We will listen to each questions,
answer the ones given to us, and write the
important details in our notes.
28. Why was the National
Election of 1896 significant in
Utah?
It was the first national election that
Utah could participate in as a state.
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29. Which party won control of
Utah’s legislature?
_____________________
Democrats
30. What contribution did
Martha Hughes Cannon achieve
for the first time in the
United States?
She was the first female state (not
national) senator in the United
States.
26. What number was Utah in US
states gaining statehood?
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45th
27. Describe some of the
celebrations that took place
around the state when statehood
was declared.
There were parades, dances, firing
guns in the air, singing,
speeches, etc.
21. President ____________
authorized Utah men to elect
delegates who wrote Utah’s
constitution.
Cleveland
22. Utah’s Constitution had to
guarantee several things before it
would be accepted by Congress. What
were three things it had to do?
1) Polygamy would be illegal
2) Free public education
3) separation of church, state, and
economy
23. After a long debate, the
delegates included in the
Constitution a clause that gave
_______________ back the right to
vote.
women
24. Who was elected as the
first governor of Utah?
_________ __ ___________
Heber M. Wells
25. After ratification what
else had to take place before
Utah to become a state?
The constitution had to be approved
by Congress and the president.
17. Why were women in Utah
initially given the right to
vote?
People believed that Utah women
would vote out polygamy.
18. Did Mormon women in Utah
vote the way people expected?
Explain why or why not.
No, they voted to keep polygamy.
19. What did the Edmunds-Tucker
Act do to women’s suffrage in
Utah?
It took voting rights away from
women.
20. How did Emmeline B. Wells
help Utah’s women?
She was a leader in the women’s
suffrage movement that also
published a magazine about
women’s issues.
14. Early elections in Utah became
contests between two political
parties. Most Mormons in Utah were
members of the ___________________,
while most non-Mormons were members
of the ____________________.
People’s Party; Liberal Party
15. Mormons tended to join the
______________________, and nonMormons mostly joined the
_______________________. In order
to bring balance, LDS church
leaders called some Mormons to join
the _______________________.
Democrats, Republicans,
Republicans
16. What event generated good
feelings between many Mormons and
non-Mormons, and also sparked
favorable newspaper articles about
Utah across the nation?
The tours and ceremonies
surrounding the dedication of the
Salt Lake City temple, to which
many non-Mormons were invited.
11. What was the Manifesto?
The document that ended new
polygamist marriages among the
Mormons.
12. Who issued the Manifesto?
_____________ _________________
1) Wilford Woodruff
13. After the Manifesto, U.S.
President _________________ issued
a proclamation ______________ past
polygamists. What else did the
proclamation do?
Harrison (Cleveland); pardoning
The proclamation also gave
polygamist men back their
voting/political rights.
5. What was the name given to
polygamist men at that time?
_____________
Cohabs
6. Describe Mormon style
polygamy.
Most Mormons were not polygamists.
Around 30% were polygamists, and of those
who were usually had two or three wives.
Only the very wealthy or church officials had
large numbers of wives. Wives were often
left alone, and had to be very self-sufficient
to take care of themselves and their families.
7. What did it mean to “live on
the underground”?
It meant that polygamist families had to
hide from law enforcement officers.
They had secret passages, safe houses,
and hideouts in the mountains in order
to elude capture.
8. In the case Reynolds v. the
United States the Supreme Court
ruled what about the Constitution
and religious belief?
The Constitution protected religious
beliefs but not religious practices that
violate the law.
9. Many Mormon men went to
________ rather than give up
plural marriage and abandon
their wives and children.
prison
10a. After _____________
___________________ died, _________
____________ became president of the
LDS church.
Brigham Young; John Taylor
10b. John Taylor told the
members of the church to do
what about polygamy?
He told them to continue polygamy
even if it meant hiding in the
Underground or going to prison.
4. Why was the Edmunds-Tucker
Act particularly devastating to
the LDS Church?
It took away almost all church owned
property, except those exclusively used
for religious purposes.
3. Name three laws passed to
punish polygamists and the LDS
Church. Describe what each law
did in complete sentences.
2.Why was Utah denied
statehood? Describe in complete
sentences 7 roadblocks to
statehood.
1.Why did the Utah Territory
want to gain statehood?
Describe in complete sentences
8 benefits of statehood.
Bell Activity
 Get your essay and study guide
packet out.
 Turn them into your box number.
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Take
out your study guide and
review the essay questions, the
map, vocabulary, and the
questions.
Log in to the computer and go to
our class homepage (green).
DO NOT START THE TEST!!!
 Where
should your backpack be?
Things to do…
 I will pick up your study guide.
 Start with the map test. Keep it at
your desk until I pick them up.
 Then start the essay. Keep it at your
desk until I pick them up.
 Only start the computer test when
both are finished.
 IF you finish all the tests, practice the
U.S. map on the links page.
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Take
out your study guide,
Clearing the Roadblocks
(Roadblocks & Resolutions), and
the pink paper.
Review
states!
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should your backpack be?
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Things to do…
Turn in your study guide and other
papers. Study guide on top, then pink,
then lined.
Then start the map test (State test 4).
Pick up your study guide then do the
multiple choice test.
Then type your essay in Canvas.
Turn back in your study guide and put
the computer back on its charging cord.
IF you finish all the tests, read a book.
Essay Questions – Pick one
question to answer. Don’t
forget to start on the back!!
 1. How would the Utah Territory
benefit from gaining statehood?
 2. Why did Utah Struggle to
become a state?
 3. What changes did Utah make
to gain statehood?
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#1 How would the Utah Territory benefit from gaining statehood?
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#2 Why did Utah Struggle to become a state?
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