1. Life and the American Revolution
As spoken by Thomas Jefferson's secretary, Albert Gallatin, "We have no villages in America," instead American farmers' homes were "scattered all over the country.... The United States was primarily a handmade land in the early nineteenth century; production was still small-scale and not yet mechanized nor standardized. ... The most common attribute of the American daily life was that American families worked as a patriarchal unit, daily routines governed by the head male. ... Due to farming being of the utmost importance in occupation at the time, the best-selling pub...
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