Regional Lifestyles In The 1800s

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Regional lifestyles in the 1800s was just starting about. Land was being purchase and settlers were just starting to settle in this nation called America. America was purchased of Louisiana from France. Our nation was officially a nation in the year of 1803. About twenty years later about two million people fled and lived in America. Although we were finally considered America and a nation, we were really broken up. We were divided into sections that we would not recognize today. The first jobs brought about were mostly farming, manufacturing, and market jobs. Textiles, specifically cotton textiles were a big thing. Cotton textiles were mostly in Massachusetts. Also in Massachusetts were the weaving textiles. The cotton and the weaving mills …show more content…
Women did not. A couple comparisons to back then to today was that back then houses were made out of logs and called log cabins. Today they are made with bricks and expensive stone in some cases. Pine torches were used as light before electricity from the textiles were figured out. Oil lamps were also a form of light that the people used. Even the furniture today is so different to back in the 1800s. A furnished cabin had a couple bed's made out of wood and if it was a family cabin then the kids would sleep in the loft area up above on the floor. Life back then to now was VERY crucial. Especially in the winter. Everything was basically made and carved out of wood such as the silverware and seats. The women made the clothes by hand, mostly by stitching, and then later on when the cotton textiles were made it became easier to make more clothes for the family at once. The 1800s diet consisted of any meat the husband caught, and a lot of the times the wild games fur would be turned into the husbands clothes. They also ate a lot of wild fruit that was around them during the summer such as crab apples, grapes, and pumpkin. Life back then to now is extremely