In the United States
A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.
It was not their own land
Mexican Government helped farmers gain land of their own by making a new constitution that promised ways to distribute land equally. The Government broke up the giant haciendas. A lot of the land was divided among small farmers or giving to a community farm owned by all the villagers together.
If you own land, you work for yourself and you can lease the land to tenants. If you don't own the land, you work for the people who do own the land. Land ownership is important to everyone who wants to be their own boss.
They shared their profits with the plantation owner.
farmers spent most of their time on or near their land
yes.
To help others
To help others
It was not their own land
He did it so they can grow there crops
I think you are referring to Tenant Farmers.
yes but mostly farmers so they can plant their crops
Tyranny
sharecroppers were farmers who rented land and paid a share of each years crop as rent; they did not own the land they worked.
lease farming is when farmers rent out there land to other farmers and/or other people to feed there own cattle and sheep and so on
ON their own small plots of land
Cassie's family did not own any land; they were tenant farmers who worked on the Granger plantation owned by Mr. Granger.