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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- Puritans expected young people to work diligently at their calling, and all members of their large families, including children, did the bulk of the work necessary to run homes, farms, and businesses.
- Several American Indians were crucial in helping the Pilgrims survive in the new land—teaching them how to farm and fertilize the soil.
- For the first few years of colonial life, the fur trade (buying furs from American Indians and selling to Europeans) was the dominant source of income beyond subsistence farming.
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- Large farmers and merchants became wealthy, while farmers with smaller farms and artisans only made enough for subsistence.
- A variety of artisans, shopkeepers, and merchants also arose during this time to provide services to the growing farming population.
- Before 1720, most colonists in the mid-Atlantic region worked with small-scale farming and paid for imported manufactures by supplying the West Indies with corn and flour.
- After 1720, mid-Atlantic farming was stimulated with the international demand for wheat.
- In addition, many small subsistence farms were family owned and operated by yeoman farmers.
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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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- Unlike the life of yeoman farm households, these merchants lived lives that resembled those of the upper classes in England.
- Large-scale farmers and merchants became wealthy, while farmers with smaller farms and artisans only made enough for subsistence.
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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.