Out of the five factors needed for a country to industrialize, evaluate which factor (you may only choose one) is the most important and influential. Be sure to defend your answer with historical evidence. The five factors of industrialization are land (size of area and usability), labor (workers), capital (money), entrepreneurs, and natural resources.

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.

im going to go with b.