In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

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Joseph Smith was forced to move his people from New York to Ohio and then to Missouri.

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The church split when Joseph Smith said that Mormons could have more than one wife.

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Of course, those followers of Joseph Smith are to be distinguished from the followers of Joseph Smith who headquarter in Salt Lake City.

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For Mormon church founder Joseph Smith bees offered the ideal symbol for unity, political stability and social cohesion.

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Even more striking is the abolitionist Presidential campaign of Joseph Smith in 1844.

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