This is a very, very, very difficult question to answer. Comparing prices to distant periods, even when the currency is nominally the "same" is quite difficult. Inflation is currently tied to a fixed basket of goods, but many of these goods were not in production even 60 years ago, let alone 200+ years ago. This is highly relevant--your smartphone costs a couple hundred dollars today, but an item with its raw processing capabilities (ignoring the internet capabilities and cell phone capabilities) would be absurdly valuable 100 years ago--you could replace entire businesses with that device and an app. The fact that a common good utterly replaces entire industries (people called calculators were a thing, and they had to create numerical solution tables the hard way) makes a comparison difficult, at the very best of circumstances.

Then you have many other differences as well--industrialization made many goods so vastly cheap that what people spent on vital goods dramatically shifted. What once took up a majority of one's income now is a comparatively small portion of one's personal income. Subsistence level practices are rare in the industrialized world, but were fairly common. Real incomes are also substantially higher, which further complicates the question. Now, Giffen goods (non-luxury goods that see an increase in quantity demanded with an increase in price, without anything else directly changing) are really rare in the US, but a price shift in a staple could vastly change how and where people spent money. Depending on how important an item that has a tax levied on it is, in terms of how much is consumed, this could really force people entire spending to shift.

A better question is how it impacted them, rather than a simple dollar-dollar comparison.