Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter's wife, experimented successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of ________, a plant from which a blue dye could be extracted for use in textiles

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: indigo

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a. true b. false

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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What will be an ideal response?

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What was the significance of Thomas Edison's laboratory at Menlo Park?

a. It was where Edison first invented the telegraph. b. It was the first modern research laboratory ever built. c. It was where the telephone was finally perfected. d. It was the site of the first power station in New York. e. It was where Edison first sent a message over telephone wires.

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