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53 Cards in this Set
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December 23, 1805
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Joseph Smith was born
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Where was Joseph born?
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Sharon, VT
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Spring 1820
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First Vision
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What years were the different accounts for the frist vision?
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1832, 1835, 1838, 1841
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Which first vision account is in the PoGP
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1838
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September 21, 1823
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Moroni visits Joseph
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January 1827
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Joseph marries Emma
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What town did Joseph meet Emma?
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Harmony, Pennsylvania
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September 21, 1827
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Joseph Gets Plates
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April 5-7, 1829
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Oliver comes to Harmony and starts translating for Joseph
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May 15, 1829
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Aaronic Priesthood Restored
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Who restored Aaronic Priesthood?
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John the Baptist
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May 1829
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Melchezidik Priesthood Restored
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Who restored Melchez Priesthood?
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Peter, James, and John
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April 6, 1830
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Church Organized
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How many members was the church organized with and why?
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6, it was the law 3-9 members needed to start a new church
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What year did the church get its official name?
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1838
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What is Swiss Landing?
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The former name of Palmyra
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What happened in Noriwch, VT
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3 summers of crop failure, Smiths pick up and move to Palmyra
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What 2 counties does the Smith home divide?
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Palmyra (house and farming), Manchester (sacred grove)
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What are the 3 branches of the church at the time and where are they held?
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Home of Joseph Smith Sr (Palmyra Branch)
Home of Peter Whitmer (Fayette, NY Branch) Home of Joseph Knight (Colesville, NY Branch) |
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Which branch is the largest?
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Colesville, NY Branch
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John Lathrop
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Great x5 Grandpa of JS Jr. Also related to many other figures in church history including Oliver Cowdery
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Abner Snow
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Methodist Preacher in Palmyra who ridicules JS about first vision
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Oren Porter Rockwell
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Best friends of JS, live on same street, both teased as kids, both have leg operations
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Martin Harris
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translated 116 pages of lehi, lost pages, gave JS $50, also gave farm to JS for publishing the BoM
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E.D Grandin
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Publisher of the Book of Mormon
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John H. Gilbert
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Credited for being the typesetter and putting the BoM in sentences
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3 Nephites
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Plaster David Whitmers crops so he can leave immediately to pick up JS and Oliver from being tarred and feathered
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Isaac Hale
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strong Methodist, hunter, elected official, Harmony Penn. 600 acre farm, does not like JS (arranges a mob to tar and feather him)
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William Hale
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brother of Isaac, treasure seeker
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Josiah Stowell
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partner to William Hale treasure seeking, buys wheat in Palmyra, gets JS Jr. to come dig treasures at Isaac Hales propterty
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Alvah Hale
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Sent to pick up JS and Emma from Palmyra to live with the Hales in Harmony
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JS said the most important thing we can learn from the BoM is...
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The nature of God
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Tribe of Ephriam 5 qualities
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unruly, ungovernable, stubborn, warlike, and OVERALL QUALITY spirit of adventure!
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Aseal Smith who is he and what is his 11th commandment
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grandfather of Joseph Smith, mind your own business, claimed to have a revelation that someone in his posterity would change religious thinking
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Solomon Mack
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grandfather of JS, while praying sees a pillar of light and hears his name being called out
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What town do JS Sr. and Lucy Mack meet
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Tunbridge, VT
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Royalton, VT
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JS Sr. money making scheme, send ginsing root out on boat, partner says boat sank (it didnt) partner steals all the money
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Doctor Dennison
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Doctor present at JS Jr. birth, "smother the cuss"
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What is JS Sr. second job to being a farmer?
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Schoolteacher (also a well digger in Palmyra)
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How old and where was Joseph for his leg operation? What Sickness?
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7 years old, West Lebanon, NH
Typhus Fever |
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What college and what was his name of the doctor who operated on JS Jr. leg?
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Dartmuth University, Nathan Smith
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Caleb Howard
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Sent to get Lucy Mack and family to bring to Palmyra. Bad guy, whips JS Jr. off the wagon. Kicked out by Lucy Mack, but Lucy leaves JS Jr. too. JS Jr. gets picked up by some guy and brought to Palmyra
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Who put together the Pearl of Great Price?
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Franklin D. Richards
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Define a Peeper
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someone who claims they can look in stones and see treasures
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October 1825
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JS Jr. first moves in with Isaac Hale and first meets Emma
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Who was the first person to know JS Jr. had the plates?
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Emma Smith
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Charles Anthon
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Scholar who Martin Harris took the characters to in NY, says he cannot read a sealed book
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Who is the first scribe to the BoM?
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Emma Smith
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Where was the majority of the BoM translated?
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Whitmer's Loft
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Original BoM claims Joseph to be what of the BoM?
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Author and Proprietor (laws for copyright protection)
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What was the original name of the Church?
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Church of Christ
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