“jazz fantasia” and “the weary blues” are similar because they a. were written by the same poet. c. have the same setting. b. involve musical art forms. d. none of these

     Both poems were pubished on the same decade, the 1920's, where there was the ascension of two American music genres, the blues and the jazz, from the Black community to mainstream apreciation later. The poems express the sensations of the subjects hearing the music, and characterize the sounds or musical representations that are being played.

     Jazz Fantasia was written by Carl Sandburg and published in 1920. The weary blues was written by Langston Hughes and  published in 1926.

   So, the right answer would be b. involve musical art forms.

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.

the answers are a b and d