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For a large group of yeomen, independence and not wealth was important. Yeomen were small farmers who (60% owned their own farms) grew enough vegetables to feed their families,grew enough cotton each year to have little cash. They very high value yeomen placed on freedon grew directly from their own experience as self-sufficient properly owning farmers in small family-based communities, and from absolute, patriarchal control they exercised over their own wives and children.
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Did yeoman farmers own slaves?
Yeoman farmers didn't own slaves and they made up the largest group of whites in the south.
Yeoman farmers of the lower south?
1.wanted to limit the authority of government
Jeffersonian Republicans believed the ideal citizens of a republic were?
Independent farmers:)
What is another name for the beefeaters?
The Yeomen Warders. Officially, "Yeoman Warders of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary".
What was the name for a free farmer in Anglo-Saxon England?
Yeoman farmer.
Why did yeoman farmers not oppose slavery?
Because they were yeoman.
What were southern farmers called?
Yeoman farmers
What were farmers without slaves called?
Yeoman farmers
What did A yeoman farmers own?
A yeoman was a free man who owned his own farm.
What were non-slaveholding Southern farmers called?
Yeoman farmers
Did yeoman farmers own slaves?
Yeoman farmers didn't own slaves and they made up the largest group of whites in the south.
What percentage was the southern farmers were yeoman by 1860?
1860%
Yeoman farmers of the South could be found?
Yeoman farmers of the South could be found primarily in the upland regions of the southern states. They typically owned small to moderate-sized farms and worked the land themselves with the help of their families. Yeoman farmers played a critical role in the agricultural economy of the antebellum South.
What was the primary source of income for yeoman farmers?
Yeoman farmers made their money by selling their goods and labor. They sold nuts, fruits, vegetables, dairy products and animal hides.
What group made up the majority of the southern white society?
Yeoman farmers made up most of the Southern white society in the 1800s. Yeoman farmers owned small farms and sometimes had other farmers working for them.
What colony is the home to yeoman farmers from the 13 colonies?
Georgia
How were the lives of planters different from those of yeoman farmers?
The planters had large plantations and were rich and the yeoman had small farms and were poor.
