Question

Which best describes the development of farming in the United States by 1850?
It had become more productive and less difficult.
It had become less productive and more difficult.
It was centered exclusively in the South.
It was centered exclusively in the Midwest.

Answer 1

It had become more productive and less difficult.

By 1850 new tools (steel plows, mechanical reapers), better transportation, and market-oriented farming made agriculture more efficient and less labor‑intensive—not confined to just the South or Midwest.