John Bannister Goodenough
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. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.
Answer:
A.
He believes we should only be involved in war if it occurs on American soil.
Explanation:
B is the correct answer because the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States.
Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It applied only to states that had seceded from the United States, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already come under Northern control.
