American Utopia

True or False?

1. Harriet Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, established a Utopian colony after the Civil War.

2. The Sequoia National Forest in California was originally the site of the Kaweah Colony. The General Sherman Tree (the one hollowed out for cars to drive through) was called the Karl Marx tree by the colonists.

3. Fairhope (Alabama), still in existence, is the site of America's most successful single tax community.

4. The Amana Community sustained itself by selling its wares to the public.

5. The modern country of Liberia was established as a type of Utopian community.

6. The Transcendentalist authors considered their community a kind of Utopia.

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