Life in New England in the Early 1800s Part 4
Channel: TheStoryOfUsHumans
Date: 2016-03-22

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Some aspects of New England life in the early 1800s, as the Industrial Revolution arrives from England and Europe, expands, and transforms social and material life.
* Differences between European and U.S. towns and industrialization
* Bartering of goods and services
* “Earning Work” done at home
* Exchanging help with others of the community
* Wampanoag population drops from 12,000 in the year 1600 down to 400 in the year 1675
* Roads and travel
* Beginnings of the tobacco and cotton industries

Told through a summary of the following books.

The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 (Everyday Life in America) by Jack Larkin

Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Everyday Life in Early America, David Freeman Hawke 

Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry by Edwin Tunis

Our Own Snug Fireside, Images of the New England Home 1760 - 1860, by Jane C. Nylander

The Frugal Housewife, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy. By Lydia Maria Francis Child


See also
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheStoryOfUsHumans/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid

Part-1: Daily life of Wampanoag in the 1650s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtECbKuofGA

part 3 Daily life of Pilgrims in 1650s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsBjQfShA4

Part-4 Daily life in New England in the early 1800s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlOPa2N5GGI

part 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMsYfVlSbg

part6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOmS2qowbDQ

part 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdQP_w_3rE

"How neighbors helped each other in the farming villages of 1820's New England" at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Znkd4xMG7c

and "Humanism and the history of social life" at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qenTqUpuhRw

Everyday life in Europe from 1200 - 1500 ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpK6hRgRvI

Europe from 1300 - 1800 ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RN_87b8AxU