Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Complete the paragraph about the Populist Party's position regarding railroads during the Gilded Age. Farmers believed that railroads were that charged rates that increased their indebtedness. They wanted the government to railroad companies. They supported because they wanted competent people who could handle such a task.

How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slave labor in the united states? a. there was a forced migration of slaves from the south to the north. b. slave-owning cotton planters were gradually forced to sell their plantations. c. more slaves were purchased to work on cotton plantations in the south. d. the reduced need for labor on cotton plantations led to a decline in slavery. e. slaves were moved from cotton plantations to sugar plantations.