Use the image to answer the following question: sketch of ivory fossil public domain this is a sketch of an ivory artifact. why would it be considered a secondary source? a: it is drawn to scale, and the patterning is accurate. b: it appears in the diary of a scientist who observed its discovery. c: it was sketched at the site on which it was found. d: it is a drawing of a primary source.

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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.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”