In the 1800s, American clothing got cheaper thanks to the invention of the cotton gin and the spinning jenny. People owned more clothes. Enslaved people brought African fashions to the Americas, and people started to wear jeans. Many Native people started to wear more European or African-style clothes.
(Waswahili) Swahili people, Zanzibar © Sir John Kirk
Romanticism reflected the revolutionary spirit of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Initially a literary movement, its ideas soon spread to the visual arts. Romanticism developed in response to pol…
In the perennial battle of will over weight, consumers were finally offered an effective means of weight reduction around the turn of the 20th century – tapeworms! Fortunately, this “easily swallowed,” “sanitized,” and “jar packed” product proved ineffective. For more information about FDA history visit www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/default.htm
After Labor Day, most kids in the United States will be back to hitting the books, and they’re probably not thrilled about it.
Explore the fascinating world of the 1800s and discover the daily life, culture, and challenges of people during this transformative era.
The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the origins of the U.S. criminal justice system and how did racism shape it? From the creation of the first penitentiaries in the 1800s, to the "tough-on-crime" prosecutors of the 1990s, how America created a culture of mass incarceration.
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Australia has a colourful colonial past. Explore this rich history with these high quality posters (40 included), linked to the Year 5 Australian HASS curriculum. Each poster features famous Australians (politicians, pastoralists, bushrangers, aboriginals, explorers, activists, writers, poets, cricketers, industrialists) who helped shape our nation in the 1800s, their date of birth and death and their contribution or significant role in Australian history. Like the look of these posters? Why not bundle and save!! Life in Colonial Australia MEGA Bundle
Dance Hall Girls, 1893
