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Because back then, the US had not been urbanized yet. The vast majority of the US was farmland, so the boys were trained by their parents to work on the farm, and the girls were trained to work around the house and cook. Another reason was that public schools did not exist back then, and there were only private schools, which were so expensive that only the rich could afford it.

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