After growing up as an enslaved person, josiah t. walls became florida’s first african american
a congressman.
b governor.
c senator.
d judge

Option A.

Explanation:

Congressman, is the right answer.

Josiah Thomas Walls was the first Black congressman from the United States of America who served three terms of Congress of the U.S. in the years between 1871 and 1876. He became the first African American to be elected in the U.S. Congress during the time of Reconstruction Era and first black person to be elected from Florida.

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.