Question

People in the 1700s and 1800s often wrote journals and letters.Why do you think that is true?

Answer 1

It's true because people found documents dating back from the 1700s and 1800s.

Answer 2

They don't have other ways of recording what has happened so writing things down on journals was popular back then and so there's lots of journals you can find today that date back in the 1700s and 1800s