Which city-state was located near the coast and people's lives revolved around the sea? a
Athens
b
Sparta

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b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do

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.

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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.