🇺🇸ap us history review

Semi-subsistence agriculture

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An agricultural system in which farmers produced primarily for their own household consumption with limited surplus for market exchange, characteristic of pre-Market Revolution America.

AP course connection

Topic 4.6: 4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture

Unit 4

"Semi-subsistence agriculture" also found in: