The main goal of early-19th-century
Utopian communities was to achieve religious, social, economic, and/or
political perfection. It was considered to put forward a new age in human
civilization. This was a time when charismatic leaders who are greatly
influenced by religious and secular moral ideas experimented wildly with ideal models of government and
general lifestyle of its people. During the 1800s, hundreds of these
secularists were scattered all over the United States and most mysteriously
disappeared without a single trace.
Brookland,
Fruit Farms, New Harmony, Oneida, and The Shakers are the five Utopian
communities that have made a lasting impression on the life of some people in
the United States.
