All of the following technologies aided in the expansion of farming in Texas EXCEPT:

a
forts
b
windmills
c
barbed wire fences
d
cotton gins

a

Explanation:

They used the windmills for water on the land and they used barbed wire fences to keep the cows in different part of the land so that they won't eat all the grass. The cotton gin help farmers get cotton so they can sell it to get money. They didn't use forts.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.