Hunting Passenger Pigeons, about 1800 AD: American environment Most of the people died The story of the environment of North America after 1500 AD is one terrible change after another. Shortly after [...]
History of tobacco: Tobacco plants growing Early history of tobacco Tobacco is an American plant. Like other flowering plants, it probably evolved during the Triassic era, about 250 million years [...]
Sharecroppers picking cotton. See the little girl and the bigger boy? (ca 1890) How do people become sharecroppers? When people didn't own any land, or they lost their land because of not [...]
Women and men farming in south-eastern North America (1500s AD) Just as in India,China, or Europe, most of the people who lived in North America around 1500 AD were farmers. There were also some [...]
Indentured servant Nanny Hull, working on Quaintance farm in Kentucky in the 1800s Because most of the people who lived in North America had died during the 1500s AD of smallpox and measles and other diseases brought by [...]
Girls working in a mill, about 1900 AD By about 1900, though, cloth and clothing got cheap enough that there was a big change in how people thought about clothes. [...]
American clothing - 1800s: American boys at school (1800s) What did people wear in the 1800s? By the 1800s, most of the people living in North America were of European or African origin. Kids [...]
Hendrick, an Iroquois leader, in 1740 AD By the 1700s, clothing styles had changed more. There were not so many deer on the East Coast anymore, so deerskin was harder [...]
Algonquin people with wool blankets In the 1600s, most people still dressed the same as they had before, in deerskins. But in the south-west, Pueblo and Navajo people began to buy wool clothing from the Spanish settlers. [...]
A Cree deerskin jacket Kids in North America in the 1500s AD wore deerskin dresses or shirts and pants when it was cold, and they mostly went naked when it was warm. Often their [...]
