Title: 19 surprising facts about life in early 1900s America
Headings: 19 Facts And Photos That Show How Brutal Life Was In The Early 1900s
19 Facts And Photos That Show How Brutal Life Was In The Early 1900s
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Content: 19 surprising facts about life in early 1900s America
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19 Facts And Photos That Show How Brutal Life Was In The Early 1900s
By Clayton Aldrich
Boredom Therapy Staff
At the turn of the 20th century, the "American Dream" began to flood the minds of people looking to make a life for themselves and their families in the United States of America. It was believed that you could achieve anything—especially freedom—by emigrating to the U.S.
Sure, the good ol' U. S. of A. might have sounded perfect on paper, but life back then wasn't easy. Besides lower life expectancy and poor education systems, there were a number of other reasons that the negatives outweighed the positives for people in the early 1900s. These photographs exemplify just a few of the reasons you'll be glad that you're living here today instead of early-1900s America...
1. Becoming a doctor didn't require any college education: Surprisingly, roughly 90 percent of early-1900s physicians never spent a single day in a college classroom. Instead, they went to substandard medical schools, where they learned just the basics. 2. People practiced poor hygiene: While it's common today for people to wash their hair daily, during the early 1900s, most only washed theirs about once a month.