The church tried to restrict war by doing all of the following a. determining days on which wars could not be fought. b. banning wars in certain areas or on certain lands. c. limiting who could fight in wars and be hurt. d. charging fees for fighting near a church or other holy place.

b) that he was not a free man

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.