Title: What was life like for the average US citizen in the 1700's? - Quora
Headings: What was life like for the average US citizen in the 1700's?
What was life like for the average US citizen in the 1700's?
Isaac McPherson
What was life like in America in the late 1700's?
Quora User
What was oral hygiene like in the 1700's? What would kissing have been like?
John Shinimankov
How would people of today react to experiencing life in the 1700s?
Bruce Hawkwood
Raymond McAneny
Ellen Harman
Culture
Firstza Yuhanda
Charles Ricoletti
In short and ridiculously simplified.
Mark OMalley

Content: The Little Ice Age was causing dreadful weather - droughts and floods followed by plagues and epidemics. England went through an absolutely brutal civil war, and the 30 Years War in Europe almost depopulated Germany. Absolutist monarchies like that of Louis XIV taxed people very heavily. In China the same thing was going on, but the Manchu invasion caused complete political chaos for a while along with all the droughts and floods and plagues. In Central America, Indians were enslaved and were almost wiped out by smallpox. The Atlantic African slave trade kicked into high gear. The medical care was terrible. Most surgery was done without anesthetic. People died from toothaches and from ordinary infections, including scabies. Can you imagine dying from scabies?