What political party went up against the Democrats in the election of 1840?

The Whig Party

Explanation:

Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party.

i belive the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods.

i also belive it was in december 1, 1774

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.