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 pla

Answer 1

"They generally had less enslaved labor than the southern states."

Explanation: By the 1780s the North had smaller family farms, growing commerce and urban centers, and far fewer plantations; slavery existed but on a much smaller scale than in the South (and several northern states began gradual emancipation laws in the 1780s).