Factory Conditions In the North By the mid 1800’s More and more things were made by machines. Clothes, shoes, Watches. These machines had to have operators.
Plantation owners loved having indentured servants because it really helped them save every bit of money they could. Indentured servants did suffer a lot especially with their working schedules but, with the laws that were later passed in Virginia throughout the years and any few freedoms black had were taken away making them feel hopeless at times because of the racial diversity in the America’s at the time. Servants were being optimistic at the time, they were hoping the laws being passed would not affect their rewards for all the hard work they had endeavored throughout the four to seven year long contracts. There was many uncertainty especially with how society would treat them because of their skin color. With all these new laws being passed, most plantation owners feared for their land, indentured servants were not needed as much anymore, plantation owners turned to slavery were they had more power of the individuals and were guaranteed no profit
Slaves cut down all stalks of sugar which was one of the hardest jobs on the plantation (Document 8A). Since there was so much work to do on a plantation a 500 acre plantation could have a minimum of 300 slaves working long painful days (Document 6A). Slaves were put through tons of work and since they were slaves they were not paid and the only people that were paid were overseers (Document 7A). Slaves were highly common on plantations and did the hardest and the majority of the jobs
And you can’t just pull up a plantation from nowhere, you have to build many buildings, and pay for labor too. Many people didn 't want to labor at sugar plantations. Because of the hot temperature and the other dangerous things you would have to be around. And plantation owners didn’t want to pay a lot of money for laborers. The solution, slaves.
The plantations in Maryland were oversized by tobacco, and as prices dropped the plantation owners had no other choice but to have to entrust heavily upon slaves to amplify profits. As being one of the biggest exports for tobacco it really provided them with a hardship and a burden really of having to care for such many slaves. Because of this they decided to make their plantations self-sufficient. Many plantations consisted of the main house, slave quarters, a dairy,
Also, as the demand for cotton grew, the slave trade grew too. Between 1790 and 1810, proximately 20,000 African and African Americans were brought to South Carolina. Life on a plantation for a slave was easier said than done. Slaves were under the constant, eye of the overseer and were disciplined for many things. Including, being late, not working fast enough, running away, or defying their authority.
During the 1890’s, the American outlook was that we were a country growing and developing economically and that certain nations including the United States were superior to other nations. A number of factors and values contributed to this outlook. The theory that the Anglo Saxon race was superior, and large amounts of immigrants were both factors and values that shaped America’s outlook toward the rest of the world.
Factory owners sought to control and discipline their workforce through a system of long working hours, fines and low wages. In the early 1800’s, injuries were very common textile mills (Mill Children). Due to bad working conditions mill workers suffered from a lot of sicknesses (Cotton Dust & OSHA).The mill girl’s “normal shifts were usually 12-14 hours a day, with extra time required during busy periods. Workers were often required to clean their machines during their mealtimes” (Factory Life). In the 1840’s, workers experienced bad working conditions; in the novel Lyddie, Lyddie responds to these problems by ignoring them at first, but eventually speaking up.
The jobs in America in the 1800's were normally: Farmers Blacksmiths Factory workers Life of sailors in the 1800's Life at sea in the 1800's was very difficult. Living on the ships that sailed the east and west coasts of America challenged children and adults alike. Shipboard experiences include danger, hardship and joy. Sailors
The living conditions that they lived in were very terrible. In the article it says “They lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps and shopped at plantations stores.” (Source #1) Another reason that was in the story was “Housing conditions, jobs and wages differed according to race.” (Source #1)
Slaves had a tough life they suffer a lot and misjudge for many years they were treated miserable for a long time they had an exhausting time. The slaves faced danger, but they had their ways to get over how they were treated. The life for the slaves were really for them difficult because they work so hard and they didn’t even get payed. They tried to defeat the wage upon them but some of them found their way. Mostly all enslaved people they couldn’t be free they were basically born for that reason some of them didn’t even had hope because they were treated so bad.
Segregation and Disfranchisement in the late 1800s In the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1875, African-Americans took huge strides towards gaining equality. Within the next year, all of these achievements were turned against them. African-American’s right to vote was stolen from them with unfair and unnecessary laws; their fundamental rights as citizens of the United States were stripped from them, creating setbacks that lasted for decades.
Venturing out to the Western Frontier in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s presented a vast opportunity for many, and a new way of life for millions: farming. Farming provided people with a way to begin a new life, that involved tough labor and long hours, but with the chance to put your destiny into your own hands and make it rich, drawing many people out West for the adventure. Pushing out the Native Americans, the United States Government tried to fill the land out west as fast as they possibly could, with Whites, who had hopes of making it rich through farming. Projects such as the Homestead Act of 1862, encouraged people to make the journey out West, offering 160 acres of free land to a family for a $25 registration fee, and a promise to live there for five years and make improvements to the land.
The United States was a tough challenged for many of the new arrivals because the environment was different and the land was less tamed. Therefore, the people of the colonies had to adapt to their new surroundings and learned how to produce items for revenue. In the Chesapeake region, tobacco was the main agriculture in that region and in South Carolina and Georgia they relied on rice production because of the low-lying coastline (Brinkley, 2014, p. 63). Therefore, for the people to develop and maintain this land they had to rely on slaves.
The Shield of Achilles Homer’s The Iliad is focused on inflated Greek heroes and the martial society in which they live. There is very little attention paid to the common people who do not possess incredible strength or have divine heritage. These mundane people and their society are mentioned only in epic similes, but images of what the reader can interpret as everyday Homeric life are depicted on the massive shield that Hephaestus crafts for Achilles. These images at first glance seem radically different from the martial world that the reader has experienced so far, but when studied closer, the shield also mirrors the central plot of The Iliad and demonstrates the differences between the two societies.
