how are homes today differnt in america then back then?
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Most homes have indoor plumbing, electricity, and running water. Cable TV  and internet access are big ones too. I grew up with a LOT of people who didn't have electricity/water and that was in the 80s and 90s! Now, where I am from, about 75% have electricity and water.
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I'll stick with today vs. 100 years ago.  \n\nThe health and safety differences are huge, and the abilities modern technologies give us make our number possible choices in life MUCH bigger.\n\nI would love to visit the past, but I live here.
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Lol at babo02350, The vikings where reaching the shores of northern America in the 12:th century. That was waaay back. \n\nAbout the emigration around between 1840's and 1880's, many left the country because of famine, poverty, differences between classes (the rich were very rich, the poor were very poor) and a lot of promises that all this would change in "the new country". \n\nUnfortunately it wasn't exactly true of course, that they would turn fortunate just by migrating. but I guess that's the reason people are willing to give up old lives even in these days, a strong belief in a better life can make people do most anything. \n\nA recommendation of a good novel about this time and the situation in the old country is The emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg. Very good book. \n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Emigrants-Vilhelm-Moberg/dp/0873513193/sr=81/qid=1162417961/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5385838-4746533?ie=UTF8&s=books\n\nOn this page there are some links that could help you with the question on contribution:\nhttp://www.migrationinstitute.fi/nordic/Links/Scandinavian%20Organizations.htm
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Language is not static and it evolves according to the social circumstances in which it is spoken. So English 300 years from now will be as different as Elizabethan English is now. Jules. Australia.
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They are very limited... their roles are to cook, take care of the kids. Basically like what it use to be in US and Britain until about a 100 years ago.
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In America we used to build a big porch on the front of the house.  Then in the 60s we switched to a big patio in the back yard.  For a while after that the 'living room' was the social gathering spot.  Now it's a darkened interior room containing a small glowing screen and we type to each other. \n\nThe neighbors are still there, but we no longer know who they are.
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This really depends on where and what societal class you are talking about. However in Europe, society was basically divided into three sections, known as the First, Second, and Third Estate. The First Estate consisted of the nobility. The nobility were extremely rich and had enormous political power. They oversaw the elections and appiontments of the clergy, the Second Estate. The Second Estate were also relativly wealthy but not as wealthy as the First Estate. They also had less political power and the power they did have, they vested into bidding the will of the First Estate in order to retain their power. Lastly, the Third Estate consisted of merchants, artisans, and esstentially the commoners. They were substantially less wealthy but consisted of largest portion of the population. They had little political power despite their vast numbers. Unlike the First or Second Estate, the Third Estate was subject to the most taxes and worked the longest hours.\n\nAs for life in North America, the United States had recently won their independence (1776) and the citizens were eager to assert their independence. Like in Europe, large social divisions marked the American society. At the top of society were the wealthy plantation owners. These people mainly lived in the south because thats where the most profitable crops (cotton and tobacco) grew readily. The middle class mainly lived in the North which in the early 19th century, was relativly undeveloped. At the bottom of the social order were the slaves. They had little or no independence. However, in the mid-19th, tensions between pro-slavery states in the south and anti-slavery states in the north exploded into the Civil War. During the war, the north became more and more industrialized, giving the north a comparative advantage in the war. At the end of the war, slaves were granted their freedom, but that did not mean that they moved up socially. Towards the end of the 19th centruy, the industrial revolution drastically changed the landscape of the American society. Workers were able to produce more in less time. More and more blue-collar workers began moving to the more industrialized north. They worked long tiresome hours. Minimum wage was nonexistant was were any work regulations. Child labor was heavily prevelant. However, women were not accepted into the workplace on a large scale until later in the 20th century.
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When and in which country? There have been nobles for centuries and all have had different living conditions.
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The history of the United States is something everyone who lives here should know. How the people before us devoted their lives and some times died so that a country could be born. The people back then had interesting lives and it is informative to look at them from our perspective because we are living in the fruits of their labor.
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seeing as how the renaissance age is very interesting to me, i would think that it was the same as a cook of today. just with more of the dirty work. for instance with chicken; today, cooks just pull it out of the package and dress it up nicely. back then the cook or house maid would have to go out, get the biggest or healthiest chicken and slaughter it. then bring it home and clean it, prepare it, cook it and serve it. or with butter; that to me would have been the most difficult. having to stand with a paddle and push and turn and all by hand for HOURS! so yeah, i hope that helped!
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It depends to some extent on the status, and the period you are talking about (the entire Anglo-Saxon period was from around 380CE to 1066CE)\n\nThe poorest families would dig a deep pit, build a wooden frame over the top and cover that with reeds/straw etc as thatch. The more usual homes were single storey with walls of wooden planks and again covered with a roof of thatch. Chiefs and richer villagers did the same sort of thing, on a larger scale.\n\nIf you'd like to see what they looked like try the site below.
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They are part of historic homes... back in the 1700's and 1800's house building was not as advanced as today, the stars actualy connect to a long "wire" that held the bricks from  buckling
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There are many answers to this question, there are several countries in the America's.  However most of the time when you say America you mean the United States and again there are lots of different answers.  We fired the Shot heard around the world in April, 1775.  We Declared our Independence in July, 1776.  Our Revolution was won in 1781, our current government started in 1789.  However throughout the America's there had been great Civilizations Built and around for many years before the White man came to America.  Columbus Came in 1492, the Vikings came about 400 years before and the Phonecians very probably visited the America's about 3,000 years ago.  The earliest City founded still around is St. Augustine, Florida settled by the Spainish.  The earliest English settlement was Jamestown, Virginia settled in 1607.  The Pilgrims came in 1620 and so forth.  There are many different answers to your question as you asked it, I hope that one of these is what you needed.
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The Cape Cod house style originated in colonial New England. Today, the term refers to Cape Cod-shaped houses popular during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.\n\nAbout the Cape Cod Style \nThe first Cape Cod style homes were built by English colonists who came to America in the late 17th century. They modeled their homes after the half-timbered houses of England, but adapted the style to the stormy New England weather. Over the course of a few generations, a modest, one- to one-and-a-half-story house with wooden shutters emerged. Reverend Timothy Dwight, a president of Yale University, is credited with recognizing these houses as a class and coining the term "Cape Cod."
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Times also change. Even if the built by immigrants was true (which isn't the case) then what served us well in 1860 doesn't necessarily serve us well now. \n\nThe only people who want immigration are those who wish to keep a virtual slave sub-citizen. These subs will mow their lawns, watch their kids and clean their toilets cheaply. \n\nEssentially, what the pro-immigration people are saying to US citizens is this, "You won't clean my bathroom for slave labor rates, so I'll get some dumb Mexican to cross the border and do it in your place".
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From the early 1500s brick began to be used by the wealthy to build houses. Ralph Sadlier, a court official and Henry VIII's ambassador to Scotland built Sutton House in Homerton in 1535. Sutton House is still standing today and is now a museum. It is a very impressive house now but it would have seemed magnificent to ordinary people in Tudor times with its brick walls, huge hall and wood panelled rooms. \nIt was during this time that glass emerged as a material for domestic buildings. It was still very expensive though and difficult to produce in large pieces so windows were made from many small panes of glass held together in a grid or lattice pattern. They were usually casement windows so air could be let in and rubbish etc could be thrown out. \n\nHoxton, just outside the north east city wall, was still countryside at this time and as it was away from the dirt, noise and disease but close enough to the city for business and leisure pursuits it was the perfect place for the gentry to live. Over twenty grand houses were built on Hoxton Street during this time, and surrounded by fields and trees it must have been very pleasant. \n\nBalmes House, built around 1540 to the west of Kingsland road, was another grand home. By the time of the Stuart period it belonged to Sir Whitmore and is mentioned in Pepys' diary in 12th May 1667, "... to Sir G Whitmore's house, where we light and walked over the fields to Kingsland and back again, a walk I think I have not taken these twenty years but puts me in mind of my boy's time, when I boarded at Kingsland and used to shoot with my bow and arrow in those fields." \n\nOf course most people did not live in great houses like these. In the country people still lived in wattle and daub houses with thatch roofs like they had for hundreds of years. Although sometimes now they had an upstairs and were a bit bigger they still could not afford bricks and tiles and glass in the windows. Inside most peasants' homes were as spartan as on the outside. Aside from cooking implements and matting to sleep on there would have been very little else, if anything.
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When I was a child in the 50's I think we relied on our parents more for entertainment etc as we didn't have all the after school activities etc that there are today.Parents were definately the head of the household whereas today life seems to revolve around the children.There also seems to be more freedom to access the world via affordable travel so that families today are very well travelled.The one thing that has not changed is the way we all love our own families even though lots of things are different today than they were then.