Century - 1700s

Yes they did.

The most common gun was the smoothbore flintlock musket.

Single-shot pistols were also popular.

Rifles weren't as popular because they were expensive and took longer to load.

In 1776, firearms were powerful weapons. These were black gunpowder musket rifles and hand guns. Cannons were developing into larger and more powerful weapons of war.

the open field system is a system of farming used by farmer mainly during the middle ages but also after.

It was used very similarly to how it is today, only perhaps more frequently. More compound words contained hyphens then than now. For instance, words like tonight would have been written as to-night.

hunting

indigo, rice, and tobacco, cotton came a little later

tools such as horse drawn ploughs, scythes

Short answer - some, but it was not all that common. Swimming was significantly on the decline for a couple hundred years before the 1700s so comparatively few people knew how to swim. In the 1700's swimming - like bathing, was often considered unhealthy or dangerous. Interestingly a couple of notable swimmers from that time include Benjamin Franklin and King George III who were prominent leaders on opposite sides during the American Revolution. Swimming didn't emerge again as a competitive recreational activity in England until around the 1830s.

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Ablutions were skimpy in those days. A little dab here and there with a damp cloth would do you, even in the fashionable capital of Virginia. To be sure, a so-called bathhouse, or bagnio, stands among the outhouses of the Governor's Palace. This little six-sided building, easily mistaken for a smokehouse or privy, existed as early as 1720, and Lord Dunmore, Virginia's last royal governor, was especially fond of it. He didn't use it to clean up, but to cool down.

Lord Dunmore didn't go to Virginia's hills, except sometimes with his friend Colonel George Washington. But on hot days he repaired to his little bathhouse and sat naked in it while servants poured cool water over him. It must have felt wonderful, but whatever cleansing effect it had was only incidental.

In America's colonial days, getting clean meant sponging off, usually just face and hands. A few of the better homes furnished bedrooms with chinaware washbasins and pitchers. Servants supplied the water, heated in the kitchen or laundry, and laid out clean shifts for the ladies and fresh dress shirts for the gentlemen. A shirt concealed the sweat that often flowed beneath it and kept it from staining the elegant silk or velvet waistcoat and frock coat that went over it. If you were a wealthy man, you might have fifty shirts. Your lady, of course, didn't sweat. She merely glowed.

If you insisted on thoroughly washing, a wooden tub would do a fine job. But it required hard work. It had to be lugged from the laundry house, or wherever it was stored, and filled with water, hoisted from the well, that had to be warmed. Something had to be found to use as a towel. And where in the world did the homemade soap get to? With all this ado, a semblance of privacy had to be preserved during the adventure. So a good, soaking bath was a luxury of only the well served, and few of them tackled the job more than a couple of times a year. Everyone knew that too much bathing would destroy your natural oils and leave you wide open to the ravages of various diseases. Fortunately, that theory has changed 180 degrees since the eighteenth century.

In Williamsburg, shortly before the end of the eighteenth century, St. George Tucker installed the first copper bathtub recorded in the city. Tucker put it in his dairy, piping in hot water from the laundry in the servants' quarters. The cold water pipe came in from his well. After he'd splashed about in it and scrubbed himself, he'd vent the bathwater right out of the house.

Then there was the sort of bathing that we call swimming-just the sort of thing the eccentric William Byrd II would do.In his journal, this early eighteenth-century gentleman-scholar, owner of beautiful Westover, recorded his frequent swims in the James River, often accompanied by a generally dubious dinner guest.

Though this habit may have seemed to some of his neighbors a dire invitation to ague, Byrd often took his dips to cure just such an attack. He notes that a swim always left him feeling fine. He even braved the river in winter "without being discouraged by frost or Snow," according to a 1706 letter, and said that "If People would be persuaded to this, t'would save a world of Jesuits b ark and Starve all our Doctors." The bark was a medicine for malaria.

Williamsburg jurist George Wythe would have agreed. In his sixties he got into the habit of drawing several buckets of well water, filling a raised reservoir, and yanking a cord that dumped it gloriously all over him-a cold shower every morning, summer and winter. One of his law students wrote, "Many a time have I heard him catching his breath, and almost shouting with the shock." When the old lawyer bounded in for breakfast, "his face would be in a glow, and all his nerves . . . fully braced." Doubtless that's why Wythe, teacher of John Marshall, Henry Clay, Presidents Jefferson and Monroe, and other notables, lived to his eighties.

Up in New England, winter washing was a severe trial, and bathing was unthinkable. "When the temperature of a bed-room ranges below the freezing-point, there is no inducement . . . to waste any unnecessary time in washing," wrote Charles Francis Adams, grandson of President John Quincy Adams and brother of historian Henry Adams. Hence the Yankee yarns about springtime baths that laid bare Grandpa's long-lost long johns.

Clearly, colonial America was grungy. So was the rest of the young British Empire of that time-nowhere near as clean as its much-respected progenitor, the ancient Roman Empire. To a Roman of gentle birth, the high point of each day was the visit to the bath. Built over hot springs, and designed to look grand and beautiful, baths offered pools of cool, temperate, and hot water, fed by wooden or earthenware pipes. You strolled among friends in the sunny courtyards, making sure you were seen with, and by, the right people. Political deals sprouted in the great baths. Senators whispered to special interest spokesmen-the lobbyists of that day. Conversations continued in the steam room as puffy politicians and their backers sweated out the effects of high living. Bath attendants were everywhere: one to massage; another to oil, then gently scrape the bather's skin; yet another to pluck out obtrusive hairs.

These temples of euphoria required the barest minimum of physical activity on the part of their patrons. But they sprang from the gymnasia of ancient Greece which were devoted to hard exercise. Here young men stripped-gymnos means "naked"-then, glistening with olive oil, boxed, wrestled, threw the discus or javelin-anything to work up a sweat and avoid much-dreaded flab. The ancient athletes exhausted themselves, then scraped off the oil, bathed, and, refreshed in body and mind, joined a group of listeners clustered around some noted philosopher like Socrates or Plato.

Archaeologists are often surprised by so many evidences of ancient cleanliness. Findings indicate systems of terra-cotta plumbing, with bathtubs made for royalty that look about the same as today's. The rich and powerful of three thousand years ago even enjoyed toilets that flushed with a controlled rush of rainwater. The Bible makes clear that if you wash someone's feet-and, if you're a woman, dry them with your hair-you've humbled yourself in a suitably Christian way. But the long tradition of sybaritic Roman bathing was enough to put baths into disrepute among early Christians. Only the monks kept the idea alive during the Dark Ages.

Monasteries often had communal baths, much simplified versions of Roman ones, with warmed water to make life a little more bearable for good monks, and cold to chill off naughty ones. Ordinary, unsanctified people had few chances for bathing, but at least the concept of large, public baths survived for a time in Europe. Fear of catching the Black Death, along with a growing shortage of wood for heating water, virtually ended public bathing. For a couple of centuries, common folk remained the great unwashed.

But such uncommon folk as kings and popes fared better. In the sixteenth century, Pope Clement VII, a Medici, could revel in a marble bath with many of the features found in ancient Rome-hot and cold water, for example. And in England, Elizabeth I, after whom Virginia was named, found a bath befitting to a virgin queen and took to it once a month "whether she need it or no."

During the Roman occupation of Britain, hot springs in the southwestern part of England inspired several Roman baths. One splendid example, with dark blue water that reeked of sulfur, was rediscovered in the twelfth century and gained a reputation for healing rheumatism and gout. By the reign of the Stuarts, the town of Bath was becoming fashionable.Diarist Samuel Pepys visited in 1668, finding he must use the baths by appointment, before the crowds came-"very fine ladies; and in the manner pretty enough, only methinks it cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water." He bathed, found the springs even in the temperate bath "so hot as the feet not able to endure," and, before taking the coach for home, spent a shilling "to make a boy dive in the King's bath."

Hot springs have always tempted people, even those wariest of getting wet. On the last leg of their voyage to the New World in 1607, the vessels Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery put in at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Skipper Christopher Newport thought, and doubtless prayed, that his weary and grime-caked passengers might bathe in the island's volcanic hot springs. They did, and, squeaky clean for at least a day or two, they continued their voyage to plant, at Jamestown, Britain's first permanent settlement in North America.

Among early American settlers, William Penn's Quakers espoused healthy habits of exercise and hygiene. Told that vigorous activity for children "fits them to bear the roughest Providences," Quakers quickly took to swimming and bathing. One, Elizabeth Drinker, had a shower put up, tried it, and noted, "I bore it better than I expected, not having been wett all over at once, for 28 years past." Lawrence Wright's delightful book Clean And Decent tells of Penn's butler, presumably a Quaker, who was not only deaf but plagued with various pains. "He leaped from his bed on a cold night, threw off his night shirt, jumped into cold water, ran naked round the garden, into the water again, twice more round the garden; then, taking 'a good swigg o brandy', back to bed-and needless to say had recovered both health and hearing by the morning."

In 1775, George Washington took command of New England troops who had fought the American Revolution's opening battles and now surrounded Boston to keep the British cooped up there. The newly named American commander found his army an unruly gathering of restless young men in generally filthy and unhealthy camps. He wrote many letters to Congress about the need to change this situation before disease struck and, in one, approved of his men bathing in the Charles River. But, when it came to their "running about naked upon the Bridge, whilst . . . Ladies of the first fashion in the neighborhood, are passing over it," the general put his foot down.

Washington was an enlightened soldier, certain that troops needed washing whenever the chance for it came. "While you halt," he wrote in orders to a colonel under his command, "you will take every measure for refreshing your Men and rendering them as comfortable as you can. Bathing themselves moderately and washing their Cloathes are of infinite Service."

As the Revolution raged, the general somehow found time to share in the development of Berkeley Springs in the northeast corner of what is now West Virginia. Here, where mineral springs still maintain a flow of fifteen hundred gallons a minute at seventy-four degrees, Washington and friends founded a village and named it Bath. They may have been unaware-or simply not interested-that, late in the eighteenth century, itinerant evangelists denounced the place as a "Seat of Sin" for its horse racing, gambling, and other ungodly revelries. Though today's road maps call the town Berkeley Springs, it's still officially Bath.

St. George Tucker's Williamsburg tub was about as up-to-date as any American hygienic equipment in 1796. For this country was a long way from the days when its plumbing would be the cynosure of the world. In fact, the French were likely the leaders in the bathroom business. French royalty quickly caught on and eagerly accepted the Roman notion of voluptuous baths. All important visitors to Versailles had suites that included baths. French tubs and bidets were made for all who could afford them. Often, like Mr. Tucker's, they were metal-producing a happier feeling on the naked body than cold marble. Toilets were routine furnishings in French palaces and many chateaux. Some, by ingenious French engineering, could be flushed with running water indoors. This put the French bathroom a long step ahead of the facilities of a British manor, where in blunt, bulldog fashion the squire raised water with a pump and, in answer to nature's demands, strode outside to his "bog-house." Queen Victoria, ascending the throne in 1837, found not a single bathroom in Buckingham Palace. She bathed in her bedroom with a portable tub. How often? Records of such a personal nature are still silent. But every day found Napoleon soaking in a hot tub and Wellington in a cold one, and Wright suggests that perhaps Waterloo was won in the bathroom. Far away, the townsfolk of little Williamsburg slipped into the nineteenth century with at least one tub, a few showers, occasional water pipes, a wealth of necessaries, and a healthy certainty that, baths or no, they had helped America make a clean start in the world.

Leguat's attempt to form a colony on the island of Rodrigues was one of many efforts by French Protestants, or Huguenots, to form safe places of refuge. They were part of a global diaspora to escape persecution and genocide in France from the mid-16th century untll the late 18th century.


Am writing a book about my travels tracing many of these early "international pioneers." It's called "A Passionate Nomad: No Obstacle Travels Along the French Huguenot Diaspora."

Plantations consisted of only kind of technology

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French and Indian War

Some of the major events that occurred in the world during the mid 1700's included:

French and English Rivalry In India - Both nations for vying for the profits of the rich India trade.

Treaty of Litretch - Spain had a monopoly on trade with Central and South America colonies. This treaty allowed the English to sell slaves to the Spanish colonists.

The French and Indian War - This war between the French and the English, would lead to the crumbling of the French Empire in America. For after the surrender of Quebec to England, it marked the beginning of the end of French fortune in America.

The American Colonies would suffer at the hands of King George III:

Sugar Act of 1764, placed a tax on the colonists for such items as molasses, sugar, and other imports.

Stamp Act of 1765, placed a tax on playing cards, newspapers, legal and commercial paper, calendars and liquor licenses.

The Townsend Acts of 1767, levied important taxes on Colonial Imports of tea, paper, paint and lead. This angered the Colonists to the point that the historical "Boston Tea Party" would happen.

The Intolerable Acts of 1774, suspended elections in Massachusetts and closed the Port of Boston to trade. This was punishment for the "Boston Tea Party."

In April 1775, the War of Independence got its start at Concord and Lexington, in Massachusetts. The year 1776, brought the "Declaration of Independence." The American Revolutionary War would run from 1775 - 1783. Finally, in 1783, the United States gained it's freedom from England, by way of the "Treaty of Paris in 1783."

The French Revolution, as well as the rise and fall of Napoleon would occur from the period of 1794 - 1821.

how did he colnist define there citizenships in the early 1700

They would wear lots of long dresses and no legs or sleeves would be showing. They were very UN revealing. They made sure no parts of their body was showing.

yes it was in 1750

India, St.-Domingue (Haiti), the 13 colonies of america, South Africa, and Canada.

Most coins produced in the 1700s were made with the screw press. A rolling machine rolled the metal to the desired thickness, then a punch machine punched out the coin blanks and then the blanks were placed in the screw press between the dies and men turned the screw which applied pressure to the dies and pressed the images on the coin. For more history of the manufacturing of coins click on the link named "Coin Manufacturing" in the "RELATED LINKS" along the left side of this box.

Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775), was among other things elected to the Revolutionary era Massachusetts, Provincial Congress, appointed a major general, and perished at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Well known in his time for public pronouncements defining what it is to be an American and the responsibilities of its citizens, he was revered as a martyr to embryonic American Liberty. Modern observers who learn about him are attracted to his words and the drama of his life story.

Poor harvests

Philadelphia

in the 1700's they did all sorts of things but one thing i want to recongnize is the Revelutionary war. george washington was the first great successful president. i can not stress that enough. please read a shistory book or soemthing because it is a sad thing you do not know this. ive known this since i was like 4.

The great awakening

Matchlocks and wheellocks

Yes, their were many wars in the 1700s. Most wars in the 1700s were fought over power/control over a colony by the European Colonial powers. Other wars were fought for other reasons, i.e. The American Revolution was fought to gain American independence, and etc...

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