How was the process in which the the northwest territories became states different from the 13 colonies

The Northwest Ordinance was adopted in 1787 and created a set of rules for admission of new territories. The Ordinance established that the territory would be divided into self-governing districts, each one of those districts would send one representative to Congress upon its attaining a population of 20 thousand and it would become eligible for statehood when its population equaled the least populous existing state.

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.