Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act

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The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act was signed into law on July 8, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. The act banned plural marriage and limited church and non-profit ownership in any territory of the United States to $50,000. The act targeted the Mormon church ownership in the Utah territory. The measure had no funds allocated for enforcement, and President Lincoln chose to leave the Mormons alone.

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• Mormon War (1838 Missouri)
• Extermination Order (1838 Missouri)
• Illinois Mormon War (1844-1845)
• Mormon Exodus (1846-1857)
• Utah War (1857-1858)
• Poland Act (1874)
• Reynolds v. United States (1879)
• George Reynolds
• Edmunds Act (1882)
• Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887)
• The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. United States (1890)
• 1890 Manifesto
• Smoot Hearings (1903-1907)
• History of civil marriage in the U.S.

• Justin Smith Morrill