Crash course: u. s. history
episode 15: 19th century reforms
true or false:
1. the shakers isolated themselves from the market economy and believed in equally
sexes, managing to recruit 6.000 members at their height even though they pa
celibacy.
2. the latter-day saints, also known as mormons, were persecuted for their bene
driven out of new york: they eventually settled in the south carolina region.
3.
brook farm was a utopian community founded by transcendentalists who tried to
combine the intellectual life with manual labor. only to discover that writers dont care
farm work.
4. the most utopian societies of all, started by joseph warren, were wildly successful
because people did well in an atmosphere of unrestrained individualism.
5. utopian communities were very common in 19th-century america.
6. the second great awakening was a political revival that inspired people to experiment
with new forms of democracy.