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It took Congress 17 days to vote for independence.
The answer is not B. hoplites because those are heavy infantry in ancient Greece used but lots of city states not just by Sparta so the correct term is Helots and here is the definition-- a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.
The main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War was that the African American people were prevented from leaving the very plantations where they had worked as slaves. The African Americans were bound to the land since they were buying the land through sharecropping.
