Our topic for this year's National History Day theme, Right and Responsibilities is the "Mormons and Religious Rights". We started our work on this site in mid- October. To create the site, we used several sources to find all information necessary on our subject, the Latter Day saints, or Mormons, and the specific event that ties into freedom of religion and rights and responsibilities. We learned from our sources of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a heinous act of killing over a hundred people in cold blood, all performed by the Mormons. By November, we had all the information we needed for our site, and much more. Then we began searching for places to create our own webpage. We were unsuccessful for a long time, because most of the sites we found required a payment. Fortunately, our advanced placement government teacher later informed us about Weebly.com, a website that didn't ask for money.
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So we created our webpage with no cost at all. Our topic, Mormons and the Freedom of Religion ties into Rights and Responsibilities because it is the responsibility of all people, including those of a certain faith, to respect other people's rights as humans, whether of the same faith or not. The events of 1857 on the Mountain Meadows Creek is an example of the exact statement. The attacking Mormons did not take that responsibility when violating those 128 innocent men, women and children. Why did they attack those people? The answer, as history will tell it, is that those individuals were not members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, thus they were the targets for religious bias.
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