Life+In+1800s+Josea09

General guidelines:

Pick two topics that you will research. Find four things from the 19th Century about each topic. Find a primary source example for each. Compare and contrast them with the 21st Century Come to a conclusion on whether life was better in the 19th Century or the 21st Century

Topic........................... Female Summer Chores

 * Example 1- __milking cows__**

"Having milked the ten cows, the milk was strained, the fires built, and breakfast prepared."


 * Example 2-__making cheese__**

"During breakfast the milk for the cheese was warming over the fire..." "By the time this was done the curd* was ready for the [cheese] press."


 * Example 3-__prepared dinner__**

Next came preparations for dinner, which was on the table punctually at twelve o’clock.


 * Example 4-__sewing__**

In the sultry August afternoons mother and Aunt Sarah usually took their sewing to the cool back room

I believe that life in the 21st century was much, much easier than life in the 19th century. For instance, people in the 21st century do not have to hand milk cows. Most people don't even need to milk cows now a days. Almost everything the people from the 19th century did by hand, we can now do with the help of machines. We don't need to make cheese by hand, milk cows by hand, sewing is done mostly by machine, and we don't normally use fires for cooking. Also, from these jobs I found that women did make me think that all women of that time were housewives, but in this century women do all kinds of different things.
 * Conclusion**

Work cited: http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=74