Title: What America Was Really Like in 1776 - Families Migrating West
Headings: What America Was Really Like in 1776
What America Was Really Like in 1776
Content: At the top of the economic pyramid were lawyers, who made as much as $3,000 pounds a year. The ultimate sign of wealth, similar to the ownership of a private yacht of airplane today, was an "equipage" - a coach drawn by four matched horses, with servants in livery riding outside. By 1775, Americans were producing one-seventh of all the iron in the world. By 17875,, the 13 colonies had an exonomy that was two-fifths the size of England's. The British felt enormously threatened by the dynamism of American growth, both in wealth and people. The first federal census in 1790 reveals that , of the total white population of 2 million, only 60.9 percent wre English and 14.3 percent were Scotch or Scotch Irish. On the frontier or "back country," as most people called it, things were very different. There, dress was heavily influenced by American Indian fashions. In the 1770s, many young men adopted the indian breech clout for summer wear. Backcountry young women were soon imitating the men in their own way.