as a result of the civil rights movement’s success, many other groups were moved to fight for rights in the late 1960s. the most successful was the women’s rights movement, but others made progress as well. fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing another group’s activism.

b

explanation:

straight down to hell mate

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.