The system of checks and balances was established by the farmers of the Constitution to ensure that no one branch of government could gain too much power A: true B: false

true

Explanation: Checks and balances ensured that no branch of government was powerful then the other, for instance if the president wants to go to war, he/she has to ask permission from one of the other branches of the government

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.

building the panama canal