Question: Take a look at the cartoon on the picture below then answer the following questions. 1. Describe what you see and read in the cartoon. Who is featured? What is this person doing? What is he saying/thinking? Explain.

2. How do you think people in the West feel about Ethiopia’s drought according to the cartoonist?

lincoln presided over the union victory in the american civil war, which dominated his presidency. a former whig, lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. his election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the american civil war.

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.