President jefferson argued that the job of deciding what the constitution meant was best done by:
a) federal judges
b) voting citizens
c) elected leaders
d) state governors

The answer here is c) elected leaders.

Explanation:

This is the correct answer for the APEX curriculum.

the answer is a) james madison.

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.