Sourced based essay on the Mormons

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Simon bell

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  1. From the information on source A, you can see that settlement is in a gridiron pattern which shows the town is well organised. We can learn that the Mormon settlement is quiet and tranquil, this is because there are not many people or wagons around and the place were the settlement is based.

From the source it is clear that the town is based around religion, as there is a big church on the left-hand side of the source. Because there is only one religion in Salt Lake City it shows a high community spirit, this is backed up by the peacefulness of the settlement.

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  1.  Within Source B you can read some of the difficulties faced by early mining towns. The town of Bannok is a good example of the difficulties faced by the mining towns. Bannok was set up in Montana for the gold rush if 1862, as many minors came, many villains arrived as well, this proved a great difficulties because not many people in Bannok knew “each other and who to trust”. Because of this the “roughs” took advantage and become “organised and under the leadership of able villain, Henry Plummber”. As the “roughs” were so organised compared to “the respectable citizens” it would some times seem that they were able to “run things to suit themselves.

This point was further shown by business all over the  “American West”, Reward Posters were put up for the capture of Criminals. One poster shows a $15,000 reward for Frank James, Dead or Alive and the same poster shows $25,000 for Jesse James, but the rewards were not from the authorities; they were from the St. Louis Midland Railroad.

This shows the lack of a proper police force and show how the early mining towns grew faster in population compared to the authorities.

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  1. Within source C it clearly describes some problems faced by the early mining towns, but not to do with law and order.
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The source tells us about Virginia City in Montana in 1864, it explains about the outbreak of typhoid. “There was an epidemic of typhoid” and “some people were very ill”. Typhoid is a disease, which is spread through the water system through people excreting in the water.

Another mining town called “Helens” was just as bad, in 1867; three years after the problems in Virginia City in Montana, there were still problems. The roads in “Helens” were “like a river and people “commenced sinking” on the main streets. This shows how the problems took a long time to be ...

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