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Há 5 dias · In 1890, wage-earning families spent an average 41% of income on food, 15% on rent, 15% on clothing, 14% on fuel & light, and 22% on misc purposes. Source : Congress. One writer suggested that by American living standards of the 1890s , the following possessions would fulfill all of a typical family's wishes:
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
Há 4 dias · The American advantage grew over time from 1890 to 1914, and there was a heavy steady flow of skilled workers from Britain to industrial America. Shergold revealed that skilled Americans did earn higher wages than the British, yet unskilled workers did not, while Americans worked longer hours, with a greater chance of injury, and had ...
Há 4 dias · The Gilded Age - Spanning from 1865 to 1902, The Gilded Age provides insight into the key issues that shaped America in the late nineteenth century, including race and ethnicity, immigration, labor, women's rights, American Indians, political corruption, and monetary policy.
- Michael Schaefer
- 2008
Há 2 dias · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
Há 6 dias · An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1860 to 1890. As slavery and plantation life dissolved in the crucible of war and occupation, Tennessee became a laboratory of innovative social arrangements for African Americans.
- Steven Knowlton
- 2011
Há 5 dias · Lists average monthly earnings with board, by geographic divisions. Data for years: 1818, 1826, 1830, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1909, 1919, 1929, 1940, 1948. Read the explanation and historical context for this table. Farm labor wages - 1866-1922
Há 3 dias · Most of the lynchings occurred in the American South, as the majority of African Americans lived there, but racially motivated lynchings also occurred in the Midwest and border states. In 1891, the largest single mass lynching in American history was perpetrated in New Orleans against Italian immigrants .
