Why did the king of England start to tax the colonists? A. He wanted more money to make England look better.
B. He needed money to pay the debt from the French and Indian War.
C. He needed money to pay for sending soldiers to Boston during the Coercive Acts.
D. He did not like the colonists and wanted to punish them for being bad.

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.