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Life in the 1800s

Life in the 1800s. Food. Here's some of the prices for food they were paying per week just to live.

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Life in the 1800s

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  1. Life in the 1800s

  2. Food • Here's some of the prices for food they were paying per week just to live. • 1 bag of flour $1.80Small measure of potatoes daily at .17 per day $1.191/4 lb of tea .38 1 qt milk .561 lb cheap coffee .35Sugar 3 1/2 lb $1.051/2 ration meats per week $3.504 lb. butter $1.602 lb. lard .38Dried apples for treats .25Vegetables .50Soap, starch, pepper, salt, vinegar, etc. $1.002 bushels of coal $1.36Kerosene .30Sundries .28Rent $4.00 weekTotal $18.50 • http://oldrecipebook.com/1800s-livingcost.shtml • For more information: http://webspace.webring.com/people/xa/angelpig/cook_1850.html

  3. Dress • Dress was very different for the different social classes • For more info, go to http://www.vintagetextile.com/gallery_victorian.htm

  4. Technology • Railroads • Electricity • Telegraph • Ice boxes • Photographs • Colt revolver

  5. Work • Prior to the 1800s, many people were farmers. Most people lived in the country or in small towns. Then, in the mid-1800s, that began to change. New jobs opened up, and people flocked to the cities.2     What kind of jobs did people find in the cities? Beginning with people of England in the 1800s, many of them found work in factories. This increase in city residents created a need for even more goods and services and opened up additional jobs. Other workers provided the materials needed to keep the factories operating.3     Miners were the backbone of the 19th century economic system. Their back-breaking labor produced the coal that powered the factories. The miners also obtained iron ore for the foundries.4     The iron foundries attracted other hardy workers. In the 19th century ironworks, men earned their living day in and day out in the heat of the furnaces. Smelters completed the first step of extracting the iron from its ore using furnaces powered by coke, a fuel made from coal.

  6. Tools • Farm tools • Medical tool

  7. Family size Who lived where? Domestic jobs Size of homes Home Life

  8. Other

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