How did the West’s global position change during the 20th century? What long term causes led to WWI?
How was World War I fought that made it different from previous wars?
Why did the conflict between European nations involve the world?
How did World War I end?
What was the worldwide impact of the Great Depression?
How did totalitarianism lead to WWII?
What events led to the Cold War?
What were some actions and results of the Cold War?
Why were the world wars traumatic for Western society?
How did the Communists gain control in Russia between 1917 and 1921?
How did Stalin centralize control within Russia? With what results?
What economic and cultural policies did Communist regimes follow?
What factors led to the growth of militarism in Japan prior to WWII?
What type of governments took control of Latin American nations during the 20th century?

  That is a lot of questions for one post! Explanation:

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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.