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None, there were more disadvantages, more discrimination [racism] poor health care, less efficient travel, the draft and chance on getting killed in some great war, more corruption and unfair laws, lots of people dying from cholera , TB , Plague , food poisoning, etc, since there was no FDA approved stuff back then.
also you had a shorter life expectancy in the old days, a 40 year old was an old man back then
It's nice to think about the past, but I wouldnt want to go there or be alive during that time period.
just compare how easy it is to contact family overseas, you can make a quick call with your cell phone / smart phone anytime
back in the old days it was just by slow mail, lost mail, no way of knowing if your family received your message
lots of families lost contact because it was not so easy like it is now, when the immigrants came to the US at ELLIS ISLAND most of them never saw or heard from their families again
communications , travel, world news, etc is so fast now, if something happens you will know about it within minutes or local news broadcasts.
back in the old days everybody was much more isolated from what was happening around the world.
Well...since im a lady...i can't find any era that would have allowed me to vote...own my own land and be treated with equal regard...
So...no thanks to past times...
Do though envy some of the past era adventures! Sailing to new lands!
Inventing ! Studying cures or even the stars!
Actually, women in colonial America were allowed to vote in some circumstances. As early as 1756 there's documentation of Lydia Taft in the Massachusetts Colony voting. Same in NJ from 1776-early 1800s (as long as they were propertied and unmarried).
back in the old days everybody was much more isolated from what was happening around the world.
Sometimes that doesn't seem like such a bad things these days, but I get what you're saying.
That's what I meant in my original post by saying it was such a simpler life back then (1800's America I mean). People weren't so concerned about what was going on on the other side of the world as much as they are now. They weren't addicted to smartphones and gadgets and all the other useless junk people are stunk on today. Families stayed much closer to each other instead of bee-lining it to the current "trendy/hip" city after college.
Of course there were disadvantages though; healthcare, information, communication, world wars (which I would have loved to fight in with my great grandfather), equal rights, etc, etc. Just seems fun to think about what it would have been like to live back then.
Sometimes that doesn't seem like such a bad things these days, but I get what you're saying.
That's what I meant in my original post by saying it was such a simpler life back then (1800's America I mean). People weren't so concerned about what was going on on the other side of the world as much as they are now. They weren't addicted to smartphones and gadgets and all the other useless junk people are stunk on today. Families stayed much closer to each other instead of bee-lining it to the current "trendy/hip" city after college.
Of course there were disadvantages though; healthcare, information, communication, world wars (which I would have loved to fight in with my great grandfather), equal rights, etc, etc. Just seems fun to think about what it would have been like to live back then.
People that were not there always seem to think the Great War , Wars were such a Glorious and Adventurous experience
if you ever watched "ALL QUIET on THE WESTERN FRONT" in the beginning of the movie they try to glorify the war and make it seem like a very honorable thing to do and encourage the young men to join and go fight, be a man, fight for your country, protect the women, get some respect and come home a war hero, etc.
Most stories from the veterans that were actually there, dont seem to think of it as such a adventurous and glorifying thing to do, many dont even want to talk about it, WWI was one of the bloodiest wars in history, very high casualties, hundreds, maybe thousands killed in a day, nothing like modern wars, it was much more bloody. The US didnt even go to war until the last year or towards the end of the war, the Brits, French, Germans, etc had already been fighting for years before the US even arrived.
People that were not there always seem to think the Great War , Wars were such a Glorious and Adventurous experience
if you ever watched "ALL QUIET on THE WESTERN FRONT" in the beginning of the movie they try to glorify the war and make it seem like a very honorable thing to do and encourage the young men to join and go fight, be a man, fight for your country, protect the women, get some respect and come home a war hero, etc.
Most stories from the veterans that were actually there, dont seem to think of it as such a adventurous and glorifying thing to do, many dont even want to talk about it, WWI was one of the bloodiest wars in history, very high casualties, hundreds, maybe thousands killed in a day, nothing like modern wars, it was much more bloody. The US didnt even go to war until the last year or towards the end of the war, the Brits, French, Germans, etc had already been fighting for years before the US even arrived.
I'm not necessarily saying it would have been glorious, but if I was given the opportunity to fight in the war I would have done so. My great grandfather enlisted on his 18th birthday and fought in WW1 because he felt it was his duty as an American. I enlisted soon after my 18th birthday to fight in OIF because I felt the same way my grandfather did. That it was my duty as an American to keep her safe. There was nothing glorious about spending 15 months in a desert. But I can look back and say it was the proudest 15 months of my life and I'm sure my grandfather and thousands of other veterans feel the same way.
The 1950s. The music, the cars (Cadillacs came in only one size: big!), prosperity, drive-in movies, malt shops, men looked like men and women looked like women, etc.
The Old West, about 1880 or so. Saloons (even though I don't drink; just for the atmosphere), trains, cowboys and outlaws! I am not quite serious about this choice. I think I would rather visit for a week or two instead of live in that time period. If I had a choice of where to stay, it would be either in North Fork, New Mexico Territory and the McCain Ranch ("The Rifleman" TV series) or Virginia City, Nevada and the Ponderosa Ranch ("Bonanza" TV series).
I would rather stay in the present. I enjoy studying history but cannot think of any era that is better than the current time period that I would want to experience. We have it pretty easy and relaxing today and I like that lol.
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