Yeoman farmers

Question 1

Farmed traditionally

Answer 1

Like in the north (but lived in the south)

Question 2

Did not own

Answer 2

Slaves
Most people of the south didn’t own slaves

Question 3

Hoped to one day

Answer 3

Buy their own property

Question 4

Crops they farmed

Answer 4

Corn
Hogs
Sometimes tobacco

Question 5

Herdsman

Answer 5

Large herd pf cattle let loose into fields to be fattened up

Question 6

Led more isolated lives

Answer 6

Population in south was smaller
Towns less dense
More remote life to those in the north

Question 7

Religion was important

Answer 7

Highlight of social calendar
Evangelical revival

Question 8

Southern economic system

Answer 8

Put limits on their improvement
Planters had the best land

Question 9

Lacked slave labour

Answer 9

Couldn’t compete with slaveholders because not enough crops were produced

Question 10

Small internal market

Answer 10

In the south

Question 11

Suffered from

Answer 11

Constant shortages of money
Could not afford the same luxuries as the planters

Question 12

Respected the

Answer 12

Planters as the highest in society

Question 13

Agreed with

Answer 13

Slavery
Knew they would have to compete with free blacks if slavery wasn’t a thing
Race hid class differences