In your opinion, was the Latter Day Saint Movement a significant part of US Hist

Question: In your opinion, was the Latter Day Saint Movement a significant part of US History!?

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IF YOU READ THIS BRIEF HISTORY, YOU MAY GATHER THAT ANY MOVEMENT WHICH INVOLVES A GOOD DEAL OF AMERICANS, IS PART OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY!. So therefore, it is part of everybody's history!. Wheter we like them or not!.

Brief history

Main article: History of the Latter Day Saint movement

The driving force behind and founder of the early Latter Day Saint movement was Joseph Smith, Jr!., and to a lesser extent, during the movement's first two years, Oliver Cowdery!. Throughout his life Joseph Smith shared and later wrote on a number of occasions of an experience he had as a boy having seen God the Father and Jesus Christ, as two separate beings, who told him that the true church had been lost and would be restored through him, and he would be given the authority to organize and lead the true Church of Christ!. Smith and Cowdery claimed that the angels John the Baptist, Peter, James and John visited them in 1829 and gave them authority to reestablish the Church of Christ!.

The first Latter Day Saint church was formed in April 1830, consisting of a community of believers in the western New York towns of Fayette, Manchester, and Colesville!. They called themselves the Church of Christ!. On April 6, 1830, this church formally organized into a legal institution under the name Church of Christ!. By 1834, the church was being referred to as the Church of the Latter Day Saints in early church publications,[1] and in 1838 Joseph Smith announced that he had received a revelation from God that officially changed the name to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!.[citation needed]

In the late 1830s, William Law and several other Latter Day Saints in church leadership positions publicly accused Joseph Smith of being a false prophet, resulting in some schisms in the church!. Many of these people later returned to the church under Smith's leadership!. Others formed new churches around other leaders!.

Following Smith's death by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, some prominent members of the church claimed to be Smith's legitimate successor resulting in a succession crisis, in which the majority of church members followed Brigham Young's leadership; others followed Sidney Rigdon!. The crisis resulted in several permanent schisms as well as the formation of occasional splinter groups, some of which no longer exist!. These various groups are occasionally referred to under two geographical headings: "Prairie Saints" (those that remained in the Midwest United States) and "Rocky Mountain Saints" (those who followed Brigham Young to what would later become the state of Utah)!.

Today, there are many schism organizations who regard themselves as a part of the Latter Day Saint movement, though in most cases they do not acknowledge the other branches as valid and regard their own tradition as the only correct and authorized version of Smith's church!. Most of these organizations are small!. The vast majority of Latter Day Saints belong to the largest denomination, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which reports 13 million members worldwide!. The second-largest denomination is the more ecumenical Community of Christ, which reports over 250,000 members!. The third largest is The Church of Jesus Christ, with fewer than 20,000 adherents!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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