Interest groups are also known as 1. pressure groups 2. ethnic groups 3. cultural groups 4. religious groups

Interest groups are also known as (1.) pressure groups.

An interest group or a pressure group is an association of individuals that pursues a main aim: influencing public policy, that is to say government policy, in order to be benefited by it. All interest groups have their causes and they mainly resort to lobbying to achieve their goals. Lobbying is a method that consists in putting pressure on legislators in the lobby outside the legislative chamber in order to influence their votes.

usually her father was the one that controlled it after the death of the husband

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.