Question

Why do you think the Yeoman ideal had such far-reaching appeal in the early nineteenth century?

Answer 1

Explanation:

The average household on Mississippi's yeoman farmsteads contained 6.0 members, slightly above the statewide average of 5.8 and well above the steadily declining average for northern bourgeois families. A quarter of Mississippi's yeoman households contained at least 8 members, and many included upward of 10.