'Who was a better leader, Joseph Smith or Brigham Young?\r'

'Joseph smith was an important ghostlike figure who implanted Mormonism. He was faithful, driven, and a brawny loudspeaker system, but was easily tempered. Joseph metalworker had his with child(p) contributions and failures, and aft(prenominal) his death the bracing Mormon attractor became Brigham late, who overly made peachy contributions to the Mormon trend, but just instantaneously as Joseph Smith he had his failures. Joseph Smith was natural in 1805. While Smith was develop ment up, in that location was a huge sacred revival taking place in New York State. When he was fourteen, Smith was conclusion this truly confusing, and began to pray for guidance.\r\nSmith thus claimed that a pillar of light appeared erupt front him, and told him not to join any spectral sects. Later as he was ontogenesis up, Smith experienced a fancy from the apotheosis Moroni, who told him that God had work for him to accomplish. The angel told Smith that a book scripted upon go ld plates was deposited. The book gave accounts of author inhabitants of this unmixed and their source. The angel thence told Smith where to visualise the book, and he dug it up on a hillside near Manchester. The book gave a different story from the Bible. According to the book, lost(p) Israeli tribes migrated to America before the nascency of christ.\r\n at that place they fought each other until Christ was born and formal his perform. Then the combat began again, and one of the survivors, Mormon, wrote put down records of his sight on the plates. The person who found these plates was to restore the Church of Christ in America. Smith wouldnt all(prenominal)ow anyone check the plates to check his honesty, and said he had returned them to the hillside. Smith then published a translation of the plates in 1830. Smith started with just five pursuit, but his speaking and persuasions fling offs were really strong, and by the end of 1830 he had several(prenominal) hundre d followers.\r\n tho they were actually less-traveled in New York State because concourse claimed that Smith was only trying to derive money and his book was offensive. His house was attacked and followers were wisecrack in the streets. Smith then prayed for guidance, he similarlyk his followers Kirtland, Ohio. There he planned to pot up a urban center of God. In Kirtland, the Mormon movement flourished greatly, reaching a thousand followers by 1831. They until now founded colonies in Missouri. They worked very hard and curtly had a store, bank, make press and a mill. They soon outnumbered the non-Mormons. just their success emergenced the envy and hate of the others.\r\nVery unfortunately for the Mormons, in 1837 on that point was a economic crisis, making about(prenominal) banks collapse. Many non-Mormons had put their savings into the Mormon bank, and when it collapsed, they were chased out of Kirtland. The Mormons and their leader, Joseph Smith, then went to the colonies they had set up in Missouri, but this didnt increase their popularity. Attempts were made to stop them from voting, and the local settlers ruin property. When the governance send in military personnel to make order, the Mormons were blamed for everything, put in prison, and condemned to death.\r\nThen rumours began to go around that they were sacking slaves and upsetting Indians, making the government hold them as public enemies. In 1838 the Mormons were released from prison, they went to a very small town of work in Illinois, which Smith renamed Nauvoo. The Mormons were allowed to develop it into and fissiparous metropolis state. They prospered cooperatively, and in 1844 Nauvoo was the biggest city in Illinois, dominated by the giant temple. The Mormons, now at 35,000 were trying to create an archetype society with no poor, homeless, smoking or drinking. Many of the poor born-again, promised salvation. The Mormons were in the long run settled.\r\nHowever this was ruined by Smiths serious mistakes. He said that the idea of polygamy was right, leading to much Mormons calling him false, and a lot of lit crit in the wordpapers. This angered Smith and he destroyed the presses of the novelspaper. His critics then asked for him to be arrested, and he was put into shut away in Carthage. erst the news about polygamy expand to the non-Mormons, they were enrages. They shot Smith in the prison, and Mormons were hunted down by mobs. After the death of Joseph Smith, the new leader of the Mormons became Brigham unsalted. He stubborn that the Mormons would admit to the bang-up flavor Lake in 1846.\r\nYoung was very organise and down-to humanity, and very determined. He withal unite eight of Smiths former wives, so he was very considerate. Preparations took all winter, and then the Mormons last began their pilgrimage. They passed many dangers even though the move was puff up unionized, such as the prairie weather and plague that killed hundreds of people. On their way to the Great brininess Lake, they met Jim Bridger, a mountain man who fightned them that it would be too moth-eaten for growing corn, but was ignored. They in like manner passed Sam Brannan, a Mormon who told them to go to California.\r\nYoung replied that he is looking for a desolate place. They climbed on upwards, and by July they reached the Great sodium chloride Lake. Young had total govern over his confederacy; they trusted and mootd in him, and so although he had many challenges to overcome, he knew hed be able to build a Mormon City. Young decided that there would be no private self-control of land or water, and land would be assigned to people according to their require by the church. Everything was going well, but in 1848 the US defeated Mexico in war and gained territories including part of the Great Salt Lake.\r\nYoung decided to form a Mormon state called Deseret, but the US government refused and a compromise was made and the rule of universal meter was created, and Young was governor. Young organized and developed Utah very well, build new towns and making farming and wheat production a success. He was genuine that the Mormons would be self-sustaining. Young also sent out missionaries to replace people, and got an amazing result. There was an immigration fund set up to help converts pay for their passage to Salt Lake and organize it. However the Mormons werent very self-sufficient and bland didnt have enough workers or money for industrial development.\r\nEducation wasnt much(prenominal) of an achievement either. Tension also grew among the Mormons and the outside(a)rs when converts began to move to Utah. Many bad rumours spread about the Mormons. It was suspicious to the outsiders that the Mormons had converted some of the Indians, and so rumours spread that they were planning to kill all gentiles together. The US government decided to emphasize their authority, and in 1857 an army of 2500 men was sent out to march against the Mormons, who fled to Salt Lake City. This worked very well and the army end up not reaching Salt Lake City.\r\nThen the Mountain Meadow thrashing took place. As 140 emigrants were heading for California, they passed Utah. They maltreated Indian converts and insulted the Mormons. This provoked the Indians to attack them. The Indians and the Mormons killed all the emigrants to stop the news from spreading out. The Mormons then blamed everything on the Indians. But soon newspapers spread the story, begging for the Mormons to be punished. The US government sent troops out again, causing the Mormon families to flee. But when the news reached the East, the Mormons were suddenly turned into victims.\r\nIn 1858 the US government offered them a full pardon if they accepted the US authority. They agreed, a governor was appointed, and they were allowed to develop in peace. Their true leader was still Brigham Young. However polygamy was still a disagreeme nt. When Utah applied to become a state, the US offered to let them become a state if they accepted the ban of polygamy. They agreed, and Utah was made a state in 1896. Both of the men faced challenges, found solutions, and remaining a positive violation on the Mormon movement. Joseph Smith was very driven and determined and wouldnt accept defeat.\r\nHe was a great public speaker with a lot of charisma, and thereby converted many people into Mormonism. He was a business man and arrive ated banks. Smith was very intelligent because he created a thriving business and a new religion. He was also a great leader before he was cast asideed. He was also clever to establish colonies in Missouri, to which the Mormons fled out of Kirtland. Brigham Young managed to leave a very positive impact on the Mormon movement as well. He was a great leader, and his people believed in him and trusted him. He was very organized and more down to earth than Smith.\r\nHe managed to organize the long and difficult journey to the Great Salt Lake. When they faced cold weather in the winter, he position the winter quarters where they stayed. He also had total control over his community and established a thriving city in the Great Salt Lake. He developed a great equity of land being given to people according to their needs. He also negotiated well with the US government, eventually receiving the land of Utah. His missionaries to convert people were a big success, and he built new towns in Utah, as well as making faming and wheat-production a success.\r\nHe also established a great immigration fund for immigrant converts. He made a right and down-to earth decision when he accepted anti-polygamy, finally making Utah a State. He was also very considerate; he had the answers to the Mormons problems, carried them by means of later on the death of smith, and married all of Smiths wives. He left a long-time impact, and after his death Salt Lake City was gentle, the queen of the Church wa s finally established through his system of government, and many of his foundations still remain today. Both of the Mormon leaders also had failures. Joseph Smiths strong temper got him into jail twice.\r\nHe was also too ambitious, and his ideas of polygamy ruined the Mormons peace in the land they were finally free in. When his banks collapsed, this added tension to the Mormons relationship with the outside world even more, and made them search unreliable and too ambitious. By the time he presented his ideas about polygamy, his people didnt believe in him anymore because he had gotten them into jail, and so his leadership image was ruined. Brigham Young had failures as well. Although his planning for the Great Salt Lake journey was good, they still faced challenges and people died on the way.\r\nHe also didnt manage to establish a law to allow polygamy. They also werent as self-sufficient as he planned, and they lost money when their iron, pottery and stuff attempts didnt succee d. They also didnt achieve much in the education area. The emigrants also complained of overcharging, and relations betwixt Mormons and the outsiders remained difficult. Overall, Brigham Young definitely left a bigger positive impact on the Mormon movement. He was much more down-to-earth than Smith, and his people remained believing in him until his death.\r\nEven when Utah was appointed a new governor, he still remained their spiritual leader. Young managed to make Utah a state where Mormons continued to live after his death. Many of his foundations still remain today. The power of the Church was firmly established through his system of government, and Salt Lake City was prosperous after his death. Many Mormons remain in the world today. Young didnt get the Mormons into jail or disappoint them like Smith did, and carried them through his death. Smith had minimal achievements compared to Young, and died in shame and disapproval unlike Young, who left a great impact after his death. \r\n'