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HISTORY NOTES 1/3/11 12:09 PM Reform Movement Two major thrusts Optimistic view of human nature/ possibilities Odd because most people were Calvinist and believed in predestination Discipline and order Society was much more complicated and chaotic than they used to be Economic development: factories and women are relegated to the home Cities were growing: by the 1840?s 50,000 people in a single place was a lot of people Life becoming busier Thus order to bring civility to society Two major ideas of reform: Outside society: try to set up communities of smart people away from society, like a Utopia John Humphrey Noyes: no marriage, so basically refine society with a new set of rules Oneida: made silverware, and people thought that there was a lot of ?free love? going on