In brown v. board of education, the supreme court ruled that: a) schools should remain segregated because they are equal b) schools should no longer be segregated because they are unequal c) schools should be allowed to do whatever they want

the answer is b.2008 and 2012 were presidential election 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.