Why did most americans in the early 1800s produce everything they needed themselves?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Most Americans in the early 1800s produced everything they needed themselves because it was very difficult for them to travel and get foods from other places.

To understand this we need to have a clear picture of how things were at the beginning of the 1880s. No roads and the ones that existed did not have the best conditions. No railroads. Indeed, it was difficult for people to transport goods or animals from one place to the other. That is why people worked very hard in their farms to grow crops, milk their cows, and produce food on their own.

answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.