1. Pick ONE to explain: The Missouri Compromise OR the Compromise of 1850. What was it? What did it *try to solve?
2. Your opinion: Do you think compromises work? In government? In
life?
3. Explain: Who was Dred Scot? What were the results of his Supreme
Court Case?

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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.