Flashcard sets with a 'shakers' term meaning 'the largest communal utopian experiment, which at its height had 6,000 members in twenty settlements in eight states between 1820 and 1860. shaker communities emphasized agriculture and hand-crafts and most managed to become self-sufficient and profitable enterprises. they were socially radical and abolished individual families, instead each colony was one big family. women were also elected leaders.'

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