Editing Mormonism and polygamy (section)

==== 1857–1858 Utah War ====

{{Main|Utah War}}
As the church settled in what became the Utah Territory, it eventually was subjected to the power and opinion of the United States. Friction first began to show in the [[Presidency of James Buchanan|James Buchanan administration]] and federal troops arrived (see [[Utah War]]). Buchanan, anticipating Mormon opposition to a newly appointed territorial governor to replace Brigham Young, dispatched 2,500 federal troops to Utah to seat the new governor, thus setting in motion a series of misunderstandings in which the Mormons felt threatened.<ref>{{Citation |last=Poll |first=Richard D. |title=Utah History Encyclopedia |year=1994 |editor-last=Powell |editor-first=Allan Kent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113105715/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/u/UTAH_WAR.html |contribution=The Utah War |contribution-url=http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/u/UTAH_WAR.html |place=Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher=[[University of Utah Press]] |isbn=0874804256 |oclc=30473917 |access-date=November 11, 2013 |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |author-link=Richard D. Poll |url-status=dead}}</ref>