Utopia
DESIGN A UTOPIA
After studying the communal Utopian societies of the Antebellum period, create a web outline of what you would include in your Utopian society. How would you organize/control key societal points like food, education, work, religion, family, sex, race, and government? Write up your 1840s Utopian Society, and make sure you cite your sources.
Here’s a few YouTube videos that may help:
Antebellum Reform, Utopian Communities (the one narrator talks really fast, but it is a good overview of all the Utopian communities) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwCSguERGM
An Introduction to the Shakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjwcKxCp84
19th century utopianism: The Oneida Community (Please note, Charles Guiteau killed Garfield, not McKinley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MrYQrpAeI