Why didn't British reinforcements make it to Yorktown to assist general Cornwallis? 1. The French naval fleet blockaded the port
2. Washington's army scared them away
3. The British didn't need reinforcements at Yorktown
4. The British had given up

the answer is a. mothma gupta.

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.