Life In The 1840s Research Paper

Life in 1840s

In the 1840s it was a time that life was so different and affordable. According to Scholastic Scope (Time Machine 1840s), there is 26 states in the U.S. Products like milk is sold for 10 cents and eggs were sold for 1 cent each in the market. The majority of Americans who live in the U.S, live on farms. For only few months a year, kids got one room schoolhouse and all the students of all ages, share one teacher. The older boys help out their dads on the farms and girls help out their mom with milking goats, cooking, and cleaning their house. In freetime, young people play checkers, seesaws, swim, and elaborate games of pretend. The 1840s is a time of widespread superstition of ghosts stories and other weird tales. There is no running water in their house. If you want to drink, you will have to drink from the dwells. There is no bathrooms, and electricity. They also had weird believes. They believed if your right eye hurts then bad luck is coming your way. The 1840s was the time that Westward Expansion started when they found gold in California. In the east, the European settlers were killing the Native Americans and getting their land. In the south, many men, women, and children were enslaved. There were
people called abolitionists who helped slavery end and created an underground tunnel for slaves to escape for freedom.
There was a civil war that started in 1861 and ended at 1865. So many people died.

Entertainment and games were so different from the 1840s. It became so much better although, there is still games and entertainment that was used in the 1840s we still use today. According to encyclopedia.com, They looked with disfavor on recreational pursuits, including sports, dancing, drinking, music, theater, and art.While most middle-class Americans focused
their energies on succeeding in the emerging market economy, there were those at the high and low ends of the social and economic ladders who rejected the idea of all work and no play.Educational reformers promoted "gymnastics," which took in a wide range of physical activities as a way of improving public health and morals. Earlier, museums had focused on natural-history exhibits, including mammoth bones and stuffed birds.Museum was transformed from a center of education to a center of entertainment, where the primary activity became not the absorption of culture and knowledge.Although cemeteries are usually not a fun place to be, in the 1840s it was thought a a recreational place to be.According to memorial hall,when children were able to gather in groups, games requiring athletic skill were popular for all young children and older boys, but not for older girls. Other group activities included singing, attending singing schools which were held in school houses after hours and were attended by all ages, and attending spelling schools, which were set up in the same manner as singing schools. A number of board games were popular, including checkers, known as "droughts" chess, For those who did approve of dancing, there were informal and prepared dances at special gatherings. Although couple dances such as waltzes were new to the dance scene, they were considered not proper to most because they involved too much physical contact. At the end of a series of classes girls and boys would dance together to show off what they had learned to their families.In dancing schools students learned more complicated dances and dance steps and were made to work on posture and stance as well. Because so much emphasis was placed upon behavior and etiquette in dancing schools, attendance was seen as promoting refinement and good breeding as well as physical exercise.