My power point is about
polygamy.
By: Lwe lah
Thesis
Polygamy is an important
part of Utah history
because were polygamists,
and some still are today.
It also caused a lot of
fights between Mormons
and non-Mormons.
Polygamy started.
At first polygamy was not openly practiced, but an apostle,
name Orson Pratt made a speech, for members of the Mormon
church and its leaders to marry additional wives.
Separate wives
The wives usually lived in separate homes, but
sometime they lived in the same house.
Sometime the wives lived near each other.
The husbands sometime will visit his wives, and he
have to go to one house and then
to another.
Wives take responsible
The wives have to take responsibility for the house
works and their children.
Teaching
Some other religions sent teachers to come to Utah to
teach a lot of stuff.
The teachers not only teach the children about math
and other subjects, but they taught them about
polygamy.
The teacher told the children about how polygamy was
bad and evil.
The teachers
The teachers had been sent to teach the children but also to teach them
about polygamy.
Two teachers were who were sent were Daniel Sylvester Tuttle and
Reverend Lawrence Scanlan.
Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle
Reverend Lawrence
Scanlan
John Taylor
John Taylor served in the territorial government for over twenty years.
He told the men that it would be better to keep practicing polygamy in
hiding and live their religion, and than go to prison.
John Taylor, he was a Mormon church president and died while hiding
underground because he was
a polygamist.
John Taylor
Woman in Utah vote
At first the women in Utah could not vote in elections.
Some thought that if women in Utah can vote, they
might vote to stop the plural marriage.
The women voted to keep polygamy rather than stop it.
Man went to prison.
The men went to prison because of plural marriage.
The men won’t give up the plural marriage, so they went to jail.
The men who went to prison, abandon his wives and children.
They’ll bring musical instruments along with them while they’re in
prison.
Underground
The church leader and members went into hiding,
which they called the “underground”.
They went traveled to eastern states and other place.
They went hiding because they were to avoid arrest or
testify.
Some Mormon join
Democratic party.
Most Mormon wanted to joining the Democratic party.
The reason they wanted to join the Democrats is
because the Republican party had been responsible for
trying to end polygamy.
State guarantee religious
freedom.
The state guarantee religious freedom for all religions
in Utah.
It was because the Utah government had been working
with their own religious.
The state don’t want them to cooperative with their
religious, so that why the state have to guarantee
religious freedom.
Ended the plural marriages.
 The plural marriages in Utah had to end.
 The people in Utah have to end the plural marriages,
because to help the Utah Territory achieve statehood.
 The polygamy didn’t stop by than, so the plural
marriages didn’t end.
Declared to stop the polygamy.
The were a lot of people declared polygamy to stop, and there were also a
person who declared polygamy to it was Wilford Woodruff.
He wanted the polygamy to stop, so he declared the polygamy to stop.
The plural marriage stop, so he was really glad but only for a while.
Did the polygamy ended.
The polygamy didn’t end altogether. Some of the
people who are in plural marriage, they didn’t practice
polygamy anymore.
The people who stop practice polygamy, they join in
different religion.
There are still some people who practice polygamy here
in Utah today.
Conclusion
My topic is important to Utah, because it was took place in
Utah. Polygamy kept Utah from becoming a state for a
long time.
Bibliography
Ellsworth, Georges and Richard N. Hotzapfel. The Utah
Journey. Layton: Gibbs Smith, 2009, print.
Embry L. Jessie. The History of Polygamy. Utah History to
Go. Utah.Gov.Services.Web.2/23/12
Utah The Struggle for statehood. Dir. Ken Verdoia. Kued.
1996, film.