The statement that best explains the economic benefits of building a smaller courthouse instead of a larger one is that a smaller courthouse would require fewer workers and materials to build it and could also open more quickly compared to a larger one. Hope this helps!
Francis Wilkinson Pickens was a political Democrat and Governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the U.S.A.
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I'm not sure, but I'd say either d or b, I'd ask a parent to look over it or email your teacher for help. (:
