Which group of people used their new found wealth to obtain special privileges in medieval towns?

Jews were sometimes blamed for outbreaks of diseases.

Explanation:

jewish people sniffed up all of the money, thus making it hard for society

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.