Advantages And Disadvantages Of Frontier Life In The Late 1800s

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In the late 1700s and earl 1800s different way made people move close to the frontier. The frontier life offered advantages and disadvantages like variable climate, plagues and storms. All these conditions put in danger their plantation or their cultivated produce of the ground. The habitant taking advantages of the good seasons when they obtain great quantity of distinct products as meats, fruits, and vegetables. In winter season they used another ways to conserve the meat; some of those ways are using salt, smoking the meat, drying and canning. The products they could not find they changed or selling. The women had their daily own challenges. They are not having cooking equipment but in 1830 was introduced the stoves and that help them

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