They would insist that elected officials make decisions that benefited ordinary citizens, including small farmers.
He believed that if settlers owned their own land and made a living selling products from that land, they would take an active interest in those governing their land. Republicanism (a form of government in which elected officials govern for the benefit of the citizens). Jefferson claimed that land ownership was a natural right of citizens and that the small farmer was at the forefront of American Founding Father and future president Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826 served 1801–9) was the leading spokesperson of this belief, called agrarianism (a society based on agriculture and small, self-sufficient farmers). Many early American leaders firmly believed farming was the most virtuous (respectable) way of life and should remain the most important sector of the nation's economy. policies between 17.įarmers were respected as honest, hardworking men who provided for their families. American farmers had played a crucial role in colonial economics and politics, and they would continue to have a strong influence over U.S. census revealed that almost 97 percent of the population of four million still lived in rural areas. Shortly after the Revolution, in 1790, the first U.S. Before the Revolution, the American colonies had been part of the vast British Empire, and American farmers sold their goods in markets worldwide, from the West Indies to Britain itself. In 1783, the year that marked the end of the American Revolution (1775–83), most Americans earned their living by farming.
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