Ethnic cleansing, this term conjures up images of Serbians ousting the Albanians in Kosovo, or even Serbian and Muslim conflicts in Bosnia, but do we think of ethnic cleansing as something that has happened within the United States? Well, there was a period in our nation's history where one state decided to act against the constitution and any moral beliefs that this nation was founded on. This state was Missouri, and the governor of this …showed first 75 words of 1797 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1797 total…S. Bond, Governor. (Holzapfel & Cottle 306) WORKS CITED Cann, D. (2003). Extermination Order. Retrieved November 2, 2003, from the Stony Brook State University of New York website: http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/stu/dcann/exterm.htm. Hartley, W.G. (1999). Missouri's 1838 Extermination Order and the Mormon's Forced Removal to Illinois. Brigham Young University, Research Historian. Holzapfel, R., & Cottle, T. J. (1991). Old Mormon Kirtland and Missouri. <Tab/>Santa Anna, CA: Fieldbrook Productions, Inc.