The Utah War and Camp Floyd: Federal Authority Tested

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Explain the political tensions between the federal government and territorial leadership that led to Johnston's Army entering Utah in 1857.

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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Path to Statehood

5th Grade · Social-studies · US-UT-SS

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Analyze 19th-century conflicts among native peoples, settlers, and the federal government, and trace Utah's fifty-year journey to statehood.

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UT Standard 2.4Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Students will research multiple perspectives to explain one or more of the political, social, cultural, religious conflicts of this period, including the U.S. Civil War and more localized conflicts such as the Utah War, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Bear River Massacre, the Black Hawk War, or other Federal-Mormon conflicts. (history)