(PLEASE ANSWER ASAP) What do national leaders Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, and Joaquin Balaguer have in common?

A. They were all dictators supported by the United States because they were not communist.

B. They all supported democracy and free elections in their countries and received aid from the United States.

C. They all led guerrilla fighters in wars against the United States.

D. They were all communist leaders supported by the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s.

A. They were all dictators supported by the United States because they were not communist.

Explanation:

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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.