Sophie Nauyokas
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1880s. New_orleans_plan_1728. Lst-lct. Turns of the Centuries -Family Life,1880-1920. Family life in this period reveals a fundamental shift in many traditional American attitudes toward children, education, gender roles, and social status.
Developments in industrial production and technology increased the ability of ordinary Americans to buy what once had been unattainable luxuries. Along with those goods came the chance to acquire customs and habits originally reserved for the wealthy. Meanwhile, these same industrial advances produced economic, political and social pressures on old habits and assumptions. More and more women worked outside the home, straining traditional beliefs about male and female roles and abilities. Inland Waterways, 1820-1940: Reading the River. River pilots guided steamboats up and down the heartland’s great rivers, a skill still practiced on inland towboats.
In the heyday of the riverboat, pilots were the heroes and celebrities of river commerce. They faced shipboard explosions and fires as well as snags, ice, shifting channels, and all the other obstacles of a changing river. A journey’s success, the ship owners’ fortunes, and the lives of the passengers rested on how well pilots read the river.
River Pilots. Ahistoryofsteamboats. Am I not a man but a brother poster. Slave kidnap poster 1851. View Of Islip From The South Bank Of River Ray Early 1800's. Lawrence County Alabama Courthouse, 1880. Alabama Slave Auction. Mississippi River Steamboats. Floating Dock- Vicksburg, Mississippi. Illustration of Mississippi Town, 1800's. Illustration of Mississippi River raft. Illustration of the Mississippi River. Map of New Orleans 1880. James Street, 1880.