choose four (4) different characters from various shows or movies to represent four (4) different causes of the Civil War. (The TV show or movie that the characters come from cannot be about the Civil War! This is about creative thinking.) In your file, you will provide four (4) things for each character: 

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.

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