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TIL a county in Missouri in 1838 held a ballot measure on whether Mormons should be allowed to settle in the county; a heavy majority favored the expulsion of the Mormons. When they refused to leave, Mormon settlements were sieged by vigilantes, triggering the Missouri Mormon War

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