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**New Harmony:** **A Real-Life Utopian Society**  **By: Marie Erickson**

The student will be able to (1) outline the characteristics of New Harmony that made it considered a "utopian" society (2) conclude why New Harmony was or was not successful.

//**Answer:**// The following are characteristics of New Harmony that made it considered a "utopian" society:
 * Robert Owen treated every person in the community equally—both male and female—and he required each citizen to contribute to the labor in the community.
 * There were economic systems set in place in which the amount of time that one worked was worth a certain amount of money and the money could be exchanged for items equivalent to the amount of work completed.
 * Robert Owen had goals to make the society have no social classes, personal wealth, and make the poor more independent.
 * town had free education (free public school system)
 * first vocational schools
 * <span style="color: #aa19f0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">first kindergarten
 * <span style="color: #aa19f0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">first free library

<span style="color: #750fdb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">New Harmony collapsed after around two years and was not successful because...
 * <span style="color: #a347ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">members of the society fought about their goals and beliefs
 * <span style="color: #a347ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Owen was not religious, and there was no central spiritual belief or idea that the residents of New Harmony were able to commit to. The town lacked a strong belief that they could use to unite one another.

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