Young America claimed that modernization would perpetuate the agrarian vision of Jeffersonian Democracy by allowing yeomen farmers to sell their products and therefore to prosper.

Territorial expansion of the United States was a major goal of the Jeffersonians because it would produce new farm lands for yeomen farmers.

Her father's people had been manufacturers and yeomen farmers, her mother's grandfather the founder of Haig textile machinery manufacturers.

After first attracting yeomen farmers and common planters, in the nineteenth century, the Baptists began to attract major planters among the elite.

Much of this area had been settled by yeomen farmers, few of whom owned slaves.

Edgefield's yeomen farmers were "self-working farmers," distinct from the elite because they worked their land themselves alongside any slaves they owned.

The Gutes were both yeomen farmers and travelling merchants at the same time, so called farmenn.

Chaddock Hall was home to a family of yeomen farmers.

The first day of the invasion, two minor skirmishes were fought on marshy ground between yeomen farmers and the army.

Originally settled by yeomen farmers, in the nineteenth century numerous plantations were established for the cultivation of short-staple cotton.