SSGT Salvatore Giunta was the first living American to receive the
since the Vietnam War.
A. Purple Heart
B. Nobel Peace Prize
C. Congressional Medal of Honor
D. Presidential Medal of Freedom

C. Congressional Medal of Honor

Explanation:

He is the first living man to receive it in almost 40 years

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.