2. Why was the United States flying U-2s over the Soviet Union?

Alarmed over rapid developments in military technology by his Communist rivals in the USSR, President Dwight D. ... High-altitude U-2 spy planes began making reconnaissance flights over the USSR in 1956, giving the U.S. its first detailed look at Soviet military facilitie

The United States was worried about their power and if the Soviets had a bigger military force.

Explanation:

they believed democracy was worth the fight

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.