A small farmer in colonial times wore clothes made in their respective towns, owned little land and hoped to own more some day, and worked in fields beside their family members.
Get more into real life situations. For example something that will make this decade more interested. Instead of something for 1875 that everyone will get bored of.
The National Consumer's League is an American organization that advocates for consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. As on of the things they do is to promote safer and secure workspace, I think they might have been protesting about factory's clean workplace.
