History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1815 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Communities Formed
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The idea
Before eighteen fifteen most Americans lived on farms in a pre-capitalist culture, and market and industrial change produced an appetite for new arrangements.
In practice
The Ephrata Cloister in Pennsylvania, founded in the seventeen thirties, the oldest communal experiment then surviving.
Where people slip
George Rapp led several hundred Rappites from eighteen oh five, holding all goods in common and encouraging celibacy.
Your place on the trail
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