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The West
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religious freedom; plentiful cheap, or free land; co-op societies could escape competition industrially and socially; utopias made by religious groups like the Mennonites at Ephrata, Penn 1732
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Shakers
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Quaker offshoot lead by Mother Ann Lee in England. By 1830, there were groups in the US. They were self-sufficient agricultural settlements noted for crafts
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Oneida community
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lead by John Humphrey Noyes to create a Perectionist religious community. practiced complex marriage (free love). successful small industry including steel traps and silverware. survived until 1879
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New Harmony
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Robert Owen founded the community in Indianna in 1825. Cooperative labor and collective ownershi. Early socialism experiment; died in two years due to "laziness"
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Brook Farm
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(1841) Many figures including Emerson and Hawthorne were involved in this. Lasted 5 years and succumbed to debt. Had a successful school.
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