Utopian and Religious Movements Flashcards
What was this movement?
Reformers throughout New England and the Ohio River Valley started communities seeking a “perfect society” and to practice religion
Who was Robert Owen?
Was a Scottish textile manufacturer who founded the communal society of New Harmony, Indiana in 1825
Who founded New Harmony, Indiana, and when?
Robert Owen in 1825
What group of people began Brooks Farm and where?
Intellectual transcendentalists in Massachusetts
Why did Brooks Farm fail?
They lost a large and new communal building before its completion
What did the Brooks Farm experiment inspire?
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance” 1852
When did Brooks Farm start and when did it end?
it started 1841 and ended 1846
Oneida Community
Founded in New York in 1848
- Practiced free love
- Practiced birth control
- Practiced the specific selection of parents to produce superior offspring
What was the longest-lived community?
the Shakers
Where and when were the Shakers founded and how and when did they come to America?
They were founded in England 1747 and brought to America by Mother Ann Lee 1774
What did the Shakers prohibit and when did they basically go extinct?
Sex and Marriage, they were basically extinct by 1940
Why did most community experiments since Jamestown fail or change their methods?
Because of the competition of democratic free enterprise and free land
