What was the Democratic position on getting the government involved in the economy?
A. They believed it would hurt individual freedom.
B. They believed it would make the country stronger.
C. They thought they would lose part of their land to taxes.
D. They expected to pay more for moving products.

A. they believed it would hurt individual freedom

Explanation:

the believed that it would hurt individual freedom was the democratic position on government involvement in the economy

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.