Question

Which statement about the northern states in the 1780s is accurate?

Their economy was based on agriculture.
They had far fewer large cities than the southern states.
They generally had less enslaved labor than the southern states.
They had very large farms called plantations.

Answer 1

They generally had less enslaved labor than the southern states.

Explanation: Northern states had smaller farms, a more mixed economy (commerce, shipping, small-scale farming and manufacturing), and far fewer enslaved people than the plantation-based South.