Saints Volume 2: No Unhallowed Hand

200 flashcards by Nathan

A dated timeline of Latter-day Saint history from 1846 to 1893, drawn from every chapter of Saints, Volume 2. Covers the pioneer trek and Winter Quarters, settlement of the Salt Lake Valley, the handcart companies, the Utah War and Mountain Meadows, missions across the Pacific and Europe, the antipolygamy campaign and the Manifesto, and the Salt Lake Temple dedication. Every card carries the date and its chapter, in order.

What did Lucy Mack Smith do at the October 1845 conference?
October 8, 1845. She addressed the Saints at age seventy, knowing she would have few more chances to speak before they left Nauvoo
What was the ship Brooklyn?
February 4, 1846. A 450-ton ship that sailed from New York Harbor carrying more than two hundred Saints, most too poor to travel west by wagon, bound for San Francisco Bay
Why did Brigham Young keep the Nauvoo Temple open past his deadline?
Early February 1846. Saints thronged the temple anxious to receive ordinances before departing, so he continued administering them past the planned February 3 cutoff
When did Brigham Young cross the Mississippi to begin the exodus?
February 15, 1846, after which he pushed wagons up a snowy hill four miles west of the river
What was the Nauvoo Covenant?
October 1845. A covenant the Saints made in the temple that they would help one another leave Nauvoo and never abandon the poor
What was Sugar Creek?
February and March 1846. The first staging camp in Iowa, where hundreds of Saints shivered in damp coats and blankets after crossing the Mississippi
When did the main body start west across Iowa?
March 1, 1846, when five hundred wagons started across the Iowa prairie
Why did the Saints call themselves the Camp of Israel?
Spring 1846. After the ancient Hebrews the Lord led out of Egypt, as they battled snow and rain that turned the Iowa prairie to mud
When was the Nauvoo Temple publicly dedicated?
May 1, 1846, after workers raced to finish it even though the Saints were already abandoning the city
What was the Mormon Battalion?
July 1846. A unit of five hundred Saints recruited by the United States Army for the Mexican War campaign to the California coast, authorized by President James Polk and mustered in on July 16
What was Winter Quarters?
August 9, 1846. A temporary settlement just west of the Missouri River where the apostles announced that day that the Saints would spend the winter
How was Winter Quarters laid out?
1846. In city blocks following the Lord's pattern for the city of Zion revealed to Joseph Smith in 1833
What was the miracle of the quail?
October 9, 1846. A flock of quail landed on and around the wagons of the destitute Saints still camped near Nauvoo, and they caught the birds by hand
What is the Word and Will of the Lord?
January 14, 1847. A revelation Brigham Young recorded organizing the Saints into companies for the journey west
When did the pioneer advance company leave Winter Quarters?
The afternoon of April 16, 1847, under cold and gloomy skies
What counsel did Brigham Young give the advance company on the trail?
April 1847. That they be men of faith and sober minds, given to prayer and meditation, remembering their temple covenants and repenting of their sins
What did the explorer Moses Harris tell the pioneers?
June 27, 1847. That neither the Bear River Valley nor the Salt Lake Valley was good for settlement
What illness struck the pioneer company near the end of the journey?
July 12, 1847. Mountain fever, which struck Brigham Young and left him delirious and too weak to walk
When did the pioneers enter the Salt Lake Valley?
July 22 to 24, 1847. The advance party arrived on July 22 and 23, and Brigham Young came through in Wilford Woodruff's carriage on July 24, 1847
Who was Jane Manning James?
1843 to 1847. A Black Latter-day Saint who had walked nearly eight hundred miles to Nauvoo after being denied canal passage, then crossed Iowa with the Camp of Israel and reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847
What had the Lord declared in 1833 about bondage?
December 16, 1833. That it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another
Why did church leaders caution missionaries about slavery?
1830s and 1840s. After the Saints were driven from Jackson County in 1833 partly because some opposed slavery, leaders warned missionaries against stirring tension between enslaved people and slaveholders
What did Wilford Woodruff see from the foothills in August 1847?
August 1847. Rows of corn and potatoes already planted and the beginning of a great settlement in the Salt Lake Valley
What happened to Oliver Cowdery in 1848?
November 12, 1848. After years away, he sought and received rebaptism into the church at Kanesville, having lived in Wisconsin Territory practicing law
When was the First Presidency reorganized after Joseph Smith's death?
December 5, 1847, when the apostles sustained Brigham Young as president with Heber Kimball and Willard Richards as counselors
Where did the Saints sustain the new First Presidency?
December 27, 1847. At a special conference in a log tabernacle at Kanesville, on the east side of the Missouri River
What did the Lord reveal in 1835 about how the Twelve should decide?
March 28, 1835. That they were to make decisions unanimously or not at all, acting in righteousness, holiness, and lowliness of heart
What name did the Saints give their new settlement?
August 1847. Great Salt Lake City, or simply Salt Lake City
What was the cricket plague of 1848?
May 27, 1848. Swarms of large wingless crickets descended from the mountains and swept across the Saints' fields at alarming speed
What was the miracle of the gulls?
June 1848. Seagulls came in large flocks from the lake and devoured the crickets, keeping them under control, as John Smith reported to Brigham Young on June 9