Simutopia

Before you begin, ask yourself this: What historical problems facing Americans in the Jacksonian era does this community solve? How does it solves them? Why would an American man or woman of the period want to live in your utopia?

You might consider the following possibilities.

Will your utopia be:

A religious community, where all share the same beliefs? What will those beliefs be?
A socialist community, with all property owned in common and all work shared equally?
A combination of both?

Will it be purely a commercial enterprise, designed to make money, like Hygeia?
Or a non profit experiment?
Or an experiment in radical equality?

Your community must be abe to support itself—will it be agricultural, industrial, or a mix of both?

Will it be closed to the rest of the world, or open?
Will it be rural in character, or urban?
Will there be slavery?

Remember, your community must address the concerns of the day—about the excesses of industrialization, about immorality in commercial life, about the changing relations of men and women, about the potential or danger of democratic politics

Then design your own "Sim Utopia." Drag the icons at the top of the next page into the "map" space. When you are finished, Take a screenshot of your image. On a windows machine, press the "Print Screen" or "Prnt Scrn" key. On a macintosh, press command + shift + 3. Then add your utopia to your web journal, with a brief (1-2 paragraph) description of how it is organized.

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