landlord

Examples of landlord in the following topics:

• Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

  • A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.
  • In most developed countries today, at least some restrictions are placed on the rights of landlords to evict tenants under normal circumstances.
  • A sharecropper is a farm tenant who pays rent with a portion (often half) of the crop he raises and who brings little to the operation besides his family labor; the landlord usually furnishing working stock, tools, fertilizer, housing, fuel, and seed, and often provided regular advice and oversight.

• Social Classes in the Colonies

  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.

• Agriculture, Tenancy, and the Environment

  • Prior to emancipation, sharecropping was limited to poor landless whites, usually working marginal lands for absentee landlords.
  • This could ultimately result in the tenant owing the landlord more money than his share of the crop at harvest, forcing the farmer to be further indentured to the landowner.

• Principles of Freedom

  • Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families, and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.

• Colonial Government

  • Merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other groups participated in local community government life.

• Politics in Public

  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other groups participating in public life.

• The Holy Experiment

  • William Penn was a well-educated landlord of valuable Irish estates and an evangelist for Quakerism .

• The Economy and the Silver Solution

  • Those who suffered under this policy were the creditors such as banks and landlords.

• Farm and Rural Programs

  • What's more, this requirement gave landlords an incentive to get rid of their tenant farmers and replace them with wage laborers.

• Land and Liberty

  • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.