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The Meaning of the ³West"

ENG 491Week 3 LT Assignment

Marcia Westendorf, Steve Zellner,Melissa Spark, John TenEyck

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The Meaning of the ³West´ - ThesisAlthough the ³West´ is a direction on a map, it was many things

to early Americans, religious freedom, opportunity, democracy,and a new life. Early Americans were living in a early melting

pot of many different cultures, values, and traditions that didnot always align to one another. Going ³West´ for a largenumber of these Americans offered

something they were notgetting on the east coast of

this new country.

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Religious freedom sought by earlyAmericans

Mormonism: they held religious beliefs that others found strange and even wicked, theMormons were persecuted wherever they went. They moved west to the Utah Territory,where they established their own communities and became very prosperous.

³«when the mob again assembled, they went tothe houses of several of the leadingMormons«they told them to bid their familiesfarewell, for they would never see them again.Then driving them at the point of the bayonet tothe public square, they stripped and tarred andfeathered them, amidst menaces and insults. The

commanding officer then called twelve of hismen, and told them to be ready to fire when hegave the word. He addressed the prisoners,threatening them with instant death, unless theydenied the Book of Mormon, and confessed it to

be a fraud; at the same time adding, that if theydid so, they might enjoy the privileges of citizens.´

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Democracy in the ³West´

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Escape to a new life in the ³West"

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The meaning of the ³West´ -Conclusion

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