USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

NEW FRANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the term or word for “farmers who rented the lands from the land owners”?
A
Seigneurs
B
Habitants
C
Clergy
D
Coureurs des bois
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A tenant farmer grows crops or raises livestock on land that’s owned by someone else. Most tenant farmers pay rent to a landlord for a house and farmland.

Detailed explanation-2: -a person who farms land owned by another and pays rent in cash or in a share of the crops.

Detailed explanation-3: -The landless farmers cultivate land owned by others and pay rent in exchange (i.e., for enjoying the right to use land). Those who cultivate land of others against rent payment are called tenant farmers or simply tenants.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct option is A Peasants who cultivated lands which they rented from the zamindars. The zamindars who rented their lands were known as landlords, and the peasants who cultivated these lands were known as tenant cultivators.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tenancy is the use that you have of land or property belonging to someone else, for which you pay rent.

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