What was the main purpose of the thirteenth amendment?
1. it abolished slavery.
2. it overturned the three-fifths compromise.
3. it gave women the right to vote.
4. it guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race.

i think it would be reparing roads  

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.