How do people earn a living in the 1800's?

Answer 1

People in the North usually worked in the big textile factories. This was the start of the Industrial Revoulution. People in the South usually lived on small farms and slavery was legal there.

Answer 2

It was hard brutal work but a living could be earned mostly through farming every one grew their own gardens and plowed their own fields built their own houses like say if you built a house you fabricated and made it your self from scratch out of your own lumber you went out and chopped down they had trading posts were you could go and trade deer and bear skins and such things for goods guns ammo and a few things like that but yeah 99% of the time unless you lived in a big city like new york or Atlanta Ga or some wheres you did every thing on your own if you worked for some one you might get paid but see cost of living was like may be 15 dollars on a good year and most just farmed made manufactured and fabricated their own goods.

Answer 3

By doing work they were capable of and being paid for it.

Answer 4

Most Americans in the early 1800s made their living by farming.