Homework Help??

[dislal]

My DS9 has to compare the prices of today and the 1870's. How can I find the prices of sugar, flour, material, and a few other basic needs from the 1870's?

I tried googling this and i can't seem to find to much info.

TIA

 

[Minnie*J*]

I found this

http://content.lib.washington.edu/curriculumpackets/homesteaders/Catalog1870.html

 

[Minnie*J*]

This one says the 1850's-60's

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#provisionprices

 

[C.Ann]

I think this may be what you need.

http://content.lib.washington.edu/curriculumpackets/homesteaders/Catalog1870.html

 

[C.Ann]

LOL.. We were all posting at the same time..

 

[Minnie*J*]

One more

http://www.washington.edu/uwired/ou...culum/Homesteading/Documents/Food Prices.html

 

[Minnie*J*]

LOL.. We were all posting at the same time..

Funny we found the same site.

Sad that I would rather sit here and help with homework than finish cleaning my house.

 

[C.Ann]

Funny we found the same site.

Sad that I would rather sit here and help with homework than finish cleaning my house.

Well can we at least get prizes for who googles the fastest?

 

[dislal]

:Thank you all, I must have been doing something wrong I was just looking for the prices separately. Thank you he is doing a three part project about Laura Ingles Wilder and this is the last part he has to turn in tomorrow. Thank you again

 

[C.Ann]

:Thank you all, I must have been doing something wrong I was just looking for the prices separately. Thank you he is doing a three part project about Laura Ingles Wilder and this is the last part he has to turn in tomorrow. Thank you again

For future reference, this is how I found it..

In the google search box I typed 1870's price for sugar, corn, yard goods

Glad we could help..

 

[agnes!]

For future reference, doing a search of Google Books is another useful research tool for these kinds of projects.

agnes!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Funny we found the same site.

Sad that I would rather sit here and help with homework than finish cleaning my house.

If your house doesn't get completely cleaned on the schedule of your choice, it will eventually; the OP's son's homework has a much stricter deadline so you were doing something even better than housework!

 

[disneymarie]

My DS9 has to compare the prices of today and the 1870's. How can I find the prices of sugar, flour, material, and a few other basic needs from the 1870's?

I tried googling this and i can't seem to find to much info.

TIA

dd had this lesson recently in algebra, but they supplied a chart on the page with prices now and then. She had to add up a shopping list of items from then and now. Also the 1950 and use percents to see when the dollar stretched more.
Somewhere in the chapter there is not a chart?

 

[dislal]

If your house doesn't get completely cleaned on the schedule of your choice, it will eventually; the OP's son's homework has a much stricter deadline so you were doing something even better than housework!

I agree, my DS got his homework done and is soundly sleeping in bed. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! He was impressed how fast we got answers, he thought I was crazy when I tried for awhile and couldn't find it then I told him, wait I know someone who can help us.