yeoman farmer

(noun)

Yeoman refers chiefly to a free man owning his own farm. Work requiring a great deal of effort or labor, such as would be done by a yeoman farmer, came to be described as yeoman's work. Thus, yeoman became associated with hard toil.

Examples of yeoman farmer in the following topics:

  • Agricultural Interest Groups

    • Agricultural interest groups are a type of economic interest group that represent farmers.
    • Agricultural interest groups represent the economic interests of farmers.
    • Specifically, the vision of the yeoman farmer was one of the important American archetypes moving into the progressive era.
    • One example are advocacy around the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program/Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program .
    • Small farmers are just one part of the larger group of farmers involved in agricultural interest groups.

  • Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860

    • This was the belief that white Americans had a destiny to settle the American West and to expand control from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and that the West should be settled by yeoman farmers.

  • The First Political Parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists

    • The party promoted states' rights and the primacy of the yeoman farmer over bankers, industrialists, merchants, and other monied interests.

  • Interest Groups vs. Political Parties

    • By contrast, lobbyists representing farmers and rural interests seek to maintain or reinforce existing tariffs.
    • If tariffs are reduced or eliminated, then American farmers are forced to compete with farmers from other trading countries.

  • The National Party Organization

    • At various times, the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party had considerable local strength, and then faded away.
    • Some exceptions exist, like Minnesota's Farmer–Labor Party merging into the state's Democratic Party.

  • Members

    • For instance, an interest group dedicated to improving farming standards will fight for the general goal of improving farming for all farmers, even those who are not members of the particular interest group.
    • Thus, there is no real incentive to join an interest group and pay dues if the farmer will still receive that benefit even if they do not become a member.

  • The Characteristics of Members

    • For instance, an interest group dedicated to improving farming standards will fight for the general goal of improving farming for every farmer, even those who are not members of that particular interest group.
    • Thus, there is no real incentive to join an interest group and pay dues if the farmer will receive that benefit anyway.

  • Motivations Behind the Formation of Interest Groups

    • For instance, an interest group dedicated to improving farming standards will fight for the general goal of improving farming for every farmer, even those who are not members of that particular interest group.
    • Thus, there is no real incentive to join an interest group and pay dues if the farmer will receive that benefit anyway.

  • The Supreme Court as Policy Makers

    • Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. (1895) and the 16th Amendment overturned some portions of Oregon v.

  • Political Parties from 1800–1824

    • The Federalists appealed to the business community, the Republicans to the planters and farmers.