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One afternoon I was at a neighbor’s house when two young women attired in Shaker costumes appeared at the rear door. They said the Shakers always lived according to their profession, were honest and upright, but that they did not wish to live a celibate life any longer. A strange sensation seemed to creep over me, and something like a voice said, “Why listen to them? Go to the Shakers. See for yourself who and what they are.”
-- Eldress Antoinette Doolittle, 1824

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Unfortunetly, no cahnges could really be made because Ann Lee died early on in her leadership.

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Hadd said his community is challenged by rising property taxes, encroaching suburbia, a lack of new converts and a decline in production of their cash crops: apples, yarn spun from sheep's wool, dried herbs, vegetables and beef.

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The Sabbath Day Lake settlement is the last of about 20 major Shaker communities that existed between Florida and Ohio

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The only problem with The Shakers in todays society is that there is only one active shaker with 3 members.

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Ann Lee accomplished a good goal of having 6,000 Shakers in 23 communities.

The 19th-century utopian sects can trace back to the Protestant Reformation. Following the early Christian communities, communal living developed largely within a monastic context, which was created by Saint Benedict of Nursia (480?-543?AD), who founded the Benedictine order. (http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/shaker/utopias.htm)

The Shakers were greatly appricated for there contribution torwards American Crafts and Agriculture.

Created the perfect society for a few years.

ABERNETHY SAYS: The goal was nothing less than working to become perfect and to achieve salvation and heaven in this life.

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The legacy of the -shakers was to create the perfect society. to succed they would choose to give up families, property, and all wordly ties. They strongly went by communal living, productive labor, pacifism, equal of the sexes and are ritual noted for dancing and shaking.

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Zaddock Wright,a loyalist, told Ann Lee  "America must be seperated from the english and becaome a land of liberty for- the gospels sakes" (http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/shakers/shakers/)

So in 1774, she set out to the new world.

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"a group of people who are attempting to establish a new social pattern based upon a vision of the ideal society and who have withdrawn themselves from the community at large to embody that vision in experimental form."  Robert V. Hine, author of California's Utopian Colonies

The Shakers didnt last long. Ann Lee "Mother Ann" died in 1784

It is as impossible to fully set forth the power and effects of this new religion as to trace the airy road of the meteor.
-- Valentine Rathbun, 1781

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The Shakers were dissenter from the dominant calues of American Society and were associated with many reform movements including; feminism, pacifism, and abolitionism.

They wanted to pursiut in freedom, so they would buy black believers out of slavery.

They also invented many labor saving devices including the clothspin to and the circular saw. The New Hampshire Shakers owned one of the first cars in the state and used electricity while the capital building was still burning gas. (http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/shakers/shakers/)

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The Shakers were founded in 1774 by Ann Lee. she and eight pilgrams came to american to spread her gospel in the new world.

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Ann Lee-Shakers Founder

Brook Farm- Shakers Leader

Robert Owen- British Socail Reformer

(US History, 38-39)