In 1857 the Mountain Meadow Massacre occured. In this event a group of mormons and natives tricked and then attack a carvan passing through to California. The mormons believed that the US Army was going to go and eradicate them. The tension leading to this event was caused by the differences between mormons and other christian churches. Mormons were often expelled from settlements.
When the caravan as resting the mormon group attacked and after a siege tricked the members of the caravan to surrender under the guise of a white flag. Then after taking away there weapons the caravaners were killed. Men, women, and children were all victims. Only 17 children survived and that was because they were under the age of 7.
It was random that I actually found out about this event. It's called pick a year from the list. This whole event could have been avoided if there was a bit more acceptence, back in the 1850's, dealing with religion, and this proves how you need the seperation of church and state. The mormons had a theocracy, basically the church leader guy controls everything.
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