Examples of Subsistence farming in the following topics:
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- The large-scale production of cash crops began to replace subsistence farming in the South and West.
- Summarize the key social and economic transformations that accompanied the nation's movement away from small-scale subsistence farming toward agriculture and manufacturing aimed at the market
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- The majority of farms were geared toward subsistence production for family use.
- Landowning yeomen were typically subsistence farmers, but some also grew crops for market.
- During the early half of the nineteenth century, new technologies and expanding markets transformed the landscape of farming and gave rise to commercial agriculture.
- John Deere's horse-drawn steel plow also led to more efficient farming practices, replacing the difficult oxen-driven wooden plows that farmers had employed for centuries.
- These developments rapidly increased agricultural production in the West and made commercial farming viable.
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- Sectionalism increased steadily between 1800 and 1860 as the North (which
phased slavery out of existence) industrialized, urbanized, and built
prosperous farms, while the deep South concentrated on plantation agriculture
based on slave labor together with subsistence farming for the poor white
families.
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- There were only a few scattered cities; small courthouse towns serviced the farm populations.
- When slavery ended, the large slave-based plantations were mostly subdivided into tenant or sharecropper farms of 20–40 acres.
- However sharecropping, along with tenant farming, became a dominant form in the cotton South from the 1870s to the 1950s, among both blacks and whites.
- In Reconstruction-era United States, sharecropping was one of few options for penniless freedmen to conduct subsistence farming and support themselves and their families.
- Rural tenancy refers to a type of tenant farming arrangement that a landowner can use to make full use of property he may not otherwise be able to develop properly.
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- The ancient economy was mainly based on subsistence farming.
- In Medieval times, what we now call economy was not far from the subsistence level.
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- People who farm for subsistence often have no surplus goods—they consume all of the crops they produce.
- Division of labor was virtually non-existent—people working for subsistence completed all steps of each job.
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- Most New England parents tried to help their sons establish farms of their own.
- When sons married, fathers gave them gifts of land, livestock, or farming equipment; daughters received household goods, farm animals, and/or cash.
- There they built and repaired goods needed by farm families.
- After 1720, mid-Atlantic farming was stimulated by the international demand for wheat.
- While the Southern Colonies were mainly dominated by the small class of wealthy planters in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, the majority of settlers were small subsistence farmers who owned family farms.
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- The Archaic stage was characterized by subsistence economies supported through the exploitation of nuts, seeds, and shellfish.
- Sedentary farming within each local community during the end of the period showed variations on how each of these economies were run.
- Simple map of subsistence methods in the Americas at 1000 BCE.Key:[Yellow] Mesolithic; hunter-gatherers [Green] Neolithic; simple farming societies[Orange] Tribal chiefdoms or civilizations; complex farming societies
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- This chapter focuses on the subsistence systems of societies rather than their political structures.
- Some agricultural groups farm during the temperate months and hunt during the winter.
- Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture or industrial agriculture.
- It is also worth noting that large scale organic farming is on the rise as a result of a renewed interest in non-genetically modified and pesticide free foods.
- In addition to the emergence of farming in the Fertile Crescent, agriculture appeared by at least 6,800 B.C.E. in East Asia (rice) and, later, in Central and South America (maize and squash).
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- The poorest inhabitants of the American colonies tended to be subsistence farmers, day laborers, indentured servants, and slaves.
- Some new immigrants who did not own their own property served as day laborers for wages on farms or for merchants and artisans producing goods.