Chapter 11: The Struggle for Statehood
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class. Please dispose
of it properly!
Bell Activity
 Your
words are “confiscate” &
“verdict”
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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.
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Where should your backpack be?
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/NonExample:
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/
Antonym/NonExample: take away, Example: restore,
seize, impound
reinstate, return
Does your work look something like this?
Word:
verdict
Definition:
Sentence:
Synonym/
Antonym/NonExample: findings Example: undecided
judgment
hung jury
My Understanding: 4 3 2 1
Draw a picture of it:
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dispose of it properly!
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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 – 16:28
 The Worthy Men
 The Underground
 The Solution
 The Lobby
 The Raids
 Heaven and Earth
Where should your backpack be?
Today we will learn…
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History Objective –
We will be able to
describe some of the
reasons why it took
Utah nearly 50 years
to become a state.
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Language Objective –
We will read a section
of the book with a
partner, and answer
questions with the
information we learn.
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Behavior Objective –
Work Ethic and
Collaboration
Simple Summaries 
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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.
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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
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Unity – (Mormon point of view) (nonMormon point of view)
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Work with your group on this activity for
15 minutes. If you finish #2, work on
questions 1 & 3.
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class. Please dispose
of it properly!
 Your
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Bell Activity
word is “suffrage”
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?
Does your work look something like this?
Word:
suffrage
Definition:
Draw a picture of it:
Sentence:
Synonym/
Example:
My Understanding: 4 3 2 1
Antonym/NonExample:
Does your work look something like this?
Word:
suffrage
Definition: the right to vote in a
Political election
Sentence: Women in Utah were the
second in the nation to be granted
suffrage.
Synonym/
Example: vote;
democracy
Antonym/NonExample:
disenfranchise
My Understanding: 4 3 2 1
Draw a picture of it:
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class. Please dispose
of it properly!
Bell Activity
 Take
Utah: The Struggle for
Statehood notes from Friday.
 Answer questions 1-7 on page 224
using the census chart. (Write it on
the back of your paper from Friday. )
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Where should your backpack be?
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.
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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
In the Court of Public Opinion
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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.
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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.
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The Laws
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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.
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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.
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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.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Woman’s Suffrage
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Polygamy in the Utah Territory
Public Opinion & the Laws
The Underground & the
Supreme Court
Votes for Women
The Manifesto