The percent of people in the united states engaged in agriculture in 2000 was approximately
a. 56%
b. 38%
c. 21%
d. 2%

The percent of people in the United States engaged in agriculture in 2000 was approximately 2% option D is correct.

In the United States. agriculture is a industry of paramount importance because it is a net exporter of food. According to the 2007 census of agriculture, there were 2.2 million farms, covering an area of 922 million acres (3,730,000 km2), an average of 418 acres (169 hectares) per farm.

Although agricultural activity is practiced in every state in the country, it is just concentrated in the Great Plains, a vast expanse of flat, arable land in the center of the nation in the region around the Great Lakes known as the Corn Belt.

D. 2%

Explanation:

a, c, & d are correct:

they wanted lands to settle the extra population.

they wanted new markets for english goods.

they wanted to avoid civil war.