US History › Section G · Reform and a decade of crisis › Topic G.2
Communal experiments and health reform
Some antebellum reformers tried to build perfect societies from scratch in small communities. Others set out to perfect the human body, starting with a national war on drink.
In this topic
- Perfecting society and the body
- Religious communities: Ephrata and the Rappites
- The Shakers
- Oneida and the Latter-day Saints
- Secular communities
- Worked example: why did the Shakers outlast New Harmony?
- The temperance movement
- Washingtonians, women and the law
- Worked example: from persuasion to law
- Diet, water cures and phrenology
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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