What were the fastest-growing religions in the United States by 1800? Provide an example of a utopian religious community formed in the eighteenth or...

During
the 19th century, communities based on shared principles, which were often religious beliefs,
were established throughout the United States. Often termed "utopian communities,"
they featured experimental forms of social organization, such as communal landholding and
polygamy. As the United States became more well known as a nation with religious tolerance,
immigrants from various countries established such communities. With westward expansion, as new
territories were opened to Euro-American settlement, people seeking land and acceptance
increasingly moved west to establish their communities.

In the 1840s, the
New England transcendentalists established the Brook Farm community in suburban Boston
Massachusetts; Nathaniel Hawthorne was a founding member. Another transcendentalist community,
Fruitlands in Harvard, Massachusetts included founders Bronson Alcott (father of Louisa May) and
Charles Lane. They not only practiced vegetarianism but also declined to use animal labor in
their...

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