The 1700's Analysis

Everyday life in the United States is very different today than it was in the 1700's. Life was harder and the settlers did not have nearly as many luxuries as society has today. Some aspects of the colonial times that were different then are today include family, employment, and social activities. Life in the United States in the 1700's was filled with hard work, cooperation, and dedication to one’s land and family.

During the late 1700s, production and manufacturing were centralized around people’s homes and farms. The majority of the work produced was done to provide for individual or community use; often hard labor, basic machines, and hand tools were used to carry out tasks. An era of powered machines and factories created the Industrial mark across the nation. Textile and iron industries developed the steam engine to help improve transportation and exchange to increase manufactured goods. While the impact improved the standard of living for a small majority, others a large majority remained poor and living in poverty. Urban cities that housed large manufacturing plants that provided jobs in often overcrowded cities and poor living conditions.

Slaves in the colonies during the revolution were faced with no real options and little liberty. The slaves’ lot in life varied greatly between individual experiences. Those slave owners who had only a few slaves generally treated their slaves better than those with large numbers of slaves. Even if they were treated well, the slaves had little in the way of freedom. They would be required to work throughout the day at the bidding of their masters and had no recourse to whatever punishment was given at their master’s hands. The slaves also had little hope of ever obtaining freedom for themselves and their children (Pavao, n.d.).

f North America in the 1500s. Before that time, the continent was an unknown place to them. These adventurers saw it as an entirely new land, with animals and plants to discover. They also met new people in this exciting New World—people with fascinating lifeways that the Europeans had never seen and languages they had never heard. This New World for Europeans was actually a very old world for the various people they met in North America. Today we call those people American Indians.

The half century between 1810 and 1860 may seem like a brief period of time, but these fifty years were packed full of changes and innovations. Some of these drastic modifications include but are not limited to; professions becoming an expanding market (chapter 8 notes), the focus on becoming self-sustaining, as evidenced by the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 and the American System, developed by Henry Clay (chapter 9 notes). The clashing of politics and morality also came into the news (chapter 10 notes), as well as the desire for westward expansion (chapter 11 notes). With individuals spreading out across the continental United States, a Second Great Awakening occurred in order to revitalize the church (chapter 12 notes), as new territories were

Whether by land or by sea, eighteenth century colonial travel was arduous, expensive, and many times dangerous. Because of this, few people traveled very far from their homes. Transportation has changed dramatically since the late 1700’s. It was during this time that Colonial America was budding as a new country. This was before airplanes, which appeared in the very early stages of the 1900’s. Cars showed up about the same time, so rewind about 200 plus years and we’re back in colonial America. It wasn’t civilized like it is today. The dirt roads were bumpy, grimy, and when the rains came, they were mud baths. So how did people during this time get around? Often, they didn’t. Not many people could afford the cost of travel back then. Daily American Colonial Life was extremely harsh for the first settlers and colonists. They were faced with a new country, unknown territory and no friends, relatives or neighbors to help them “In those days, it was fairly expensive to travel. Because of this, generally only government officials, merchants, and planters took the risk (Constitution Facts).” Women were supposed to stay home and look after the children while the husband went off to do business. America was still a budding country, so there were not as many cities as there are now and they were more spread out. If the man wanted to travel, it would require several hours, or even several days to ride on horseback. Often the husband wouldn’t return for a couple of days, and when he

CCOT ESSAY: Analyze continuities and changes in the ways ONE of the following regions participated in interregional trade during the period circa 1500 to 1750.

After the war of 1812, United States passed through many politically, socially, and economically changes such as the Missouri Crisis, the panic of 1819, and the changes of the new economy. This changes helped create a sense of American unity, but it also created a sense of division between Americans, as they had differences of opinions about the new Republic. One of the political changes that created a sense of division was slavery. An example being the Missouri Crisis.

In a time when America was just being colonized by various groups of people ,like New England and The Spanish, there were a large amount of differences and similarities that led to the colonies being founded. In this context, we will be focusing on mostly the differences between the colonies of The Spanish and The New England Colonies. The Spanish and New England colonies from 1492 and 1700 were vastly different from the role of religion, the economic base, to the treatment of the indigenous people.

The government in the early 1700s used words like “estate” and “order” and “condition” instead of our modern time use of the word “class”. Estate was then a function of birth. Those who were born were either noble or common. Noble status could either be acquired or lost through a lifetime. We will understand this society better if we begin by using the same vocabulary they did. Now, being born into money is an external possession, but being a noble or common was an inherent condition. For the political ideas, first of all, slavery was not abolished. The government earned its rights to become a model for the revolutions to come by bringing a new political thought that originated in england. This thought began in North America. It all began when

In the 1600’s and 1700’s, the notions of freedom were not the same for everyone. European colonists had an idea that they were far superior than any other civilization and because of that they felt entitled with the authority to decide who would serve whom and what rights and liberty an “inferior” person would have. Let me talk to you about the freedom of slaves and English colonists. Africans, in the 1600’s were viewed as savages by the English colonists; thought of as uncivilized and even viewed as animals (Foner, 80). The sense of Africans being inferior made their enslavement justified for use in plantations, since the Native American population had gone down due to disease.

An approximate of three thousand slaves escaped from their masters in 1781 when the British invaded Virginia (Blumrosen & Blumrosen, 2006). About five thousand and twenty thousand slaves in Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, were freed from bondage as a result of the American Revolution (Clifford, 2005). The Revolution’s natural rights philosophy inspired the freed blacks to request the state legislatures to get rid of slavery and Congress to terminate the slave trade (Waldstreicher, 2004). Many of the freed slaves moved to the North because they believed that living conditions were better in the North than in the South. Unfortunately, they experienced many problems in the North, such as lack of jobs, insufficient food, and lack of housing, which forced many of them to go back to the south to work on the cotton plantations for wages (Clifford, 2005). In the South, the freed slaves were assured of food and housing.

The Period of 1800-1860 was the era of political revolution, religion and reform. I’m surprised to read Europeans’ view about American politicians. How they praised republican society and criticized American politicians. There was a revolution in government policy. Two new parties emerged, the Democrats and the Whigs. Removal Act was equally revolutionary. The new party system established that matched the economic advancement of both the Industrial Revolution and the Market Revolution. In mid-nineteenth century there were four major cultural movements; transcendentalist reform, communalism, abolitionism, and women’s rights.

In 1787 to 1800, there were compromises, people against each other, and plan regarding the sizes of states.

Discuss the challenges faced by three of the following groups: business, labor, the city, and farmers. How did each of these sectors endeavor to find stability through a search for order through organization?