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During this time , there lived in South Carolina a wise young woman. She showed the people how to raise the indigo plant. She was known as Eliza Lucas.  \nEliza Lucas  \nElizabeth Lucas was born in Antigua , a British  \ncolony in the West Indies (also known as the Caribbean) , on December 28, 1722. Eliza ’s father was the governor there.  \nAntigua, West Indies  \n1. The West Indies are also known as the  \na. American Colonies  \nb. Antigua  \nc. Caribbean  \nd. South Carolina  \nPage 2  \n2.When was Elizabeth Lucas born?  \na. 1721  \nb. 1722  \nc. 1723  \nd. 1724  \nWhen Eliza was old enough, her father sent her to school in England. Her favorite subject was botany. Botany is the study of plants and how plants grow.  \nbotany  \nIn 1738, Eliza’s father sent his wife and children to live with  \nrelatives in South Carolina. At the age of sixteen, Eliza came to bein charge of the family plantation. A plantation is a large farm with many workers who live there. This plantation was worked by slaves. Many of these slaves had worked in the West Indies.  \nplantation  \nEliza liked trying new things , especially with plants. She often got seeds from her father. These she planted in South Carolina.  \nFree K-12 Worksheets and More [www.studenthandouts.com](www.studenthandouts.com)  \nPage 3  \nEliza’s father sent her some seeds of the indigo plant. Indigo is used to create a blue dye for coloring fabric. Shesowed some of these in March. But there came a frost. The indigo plant cannot stand frost. Her plants all died.  \nindigo  \nBut Miss Lucas did not give up. She sowed some more seeds in April. These grew very well until a cut-worm found them. The worm wished to try new things, too. So he ate off the indigo plants.  \nBut Miss Lucas was one of the people who try, try again. She had lost her indigo plants twice. Once more shesowed some of the seed. This time the plants grew very well. Eliza was helped by slaves who had learned to grow indigo in the West Indies.  \nEliza’s father sent aman from the West Indies to her who knew how to get the indigo dye from the indigo plants. The man did not want to show Miss Lucas how to make the indigo. He did not wish the people in South Carolina to learn how to make it. He was afraid that if the people  \nFree K-12 Worksheets and More [www.studenthandouts.com](www.studenthandouts.com)  \nPage 4  \nof South Carolina made indigo dye, the price of West Indian indigo dye would go down. So he would not explain just how it ought to be done.  \nHe spoiled the indigo on purpose.  \nSouth Carolina  \nBut Miss Lucas watched the man closely. She found out , with help from slaves on the plantation, how the indigo ought to be made. Some of her family ’s land in South Carolina was now planted with the indigo plants.  \nThen Miss Elizabeth Lucas was married. She became Mrs. Pinckney. Her father gave her all the indigo growing on his land in South Carolina. It was all saved for seed. Some of the seed Mrs. Pinckney gave to her friends. Some of it her husband sowed. It all grew, and was made into that blue dye that we call indigo.  \nIn a few years, more than a million pounds of indigo were made in South Carolina every year. By the time Elizabeth (née Lucas) Pin ckney died in 1793, many people in South Carolina had grown rich  \nFree K-12 Worksheets and More [www.studenthandouts.com](www.studenthandouts.com)  \nPage 5  \nthrough indigo. And it was all because Miss Lucas did not give up.  \nShe did not give up.  \nSummarize the life of Elizabeth (née Lucas) Pin ckneyin your own words.  \nIn the 1700s, people traveled by boat between Antigua and South Carolina. Draw aline to show the route Eliza’s boat took to travel from Antigua to South Carolina.  \nFree K-12 Worksheets and More [www.studenthandouts.com](www.studenthandouts.com)","cbCaidwxTo2j1qJ9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidwxTo2j1qJ9","pdf",263137,"English","# The Wise Colonial Woman\n## Learning and Early Life\n## Indigo Experiments and Challenges\n## Discovery, Marriage, and Impact","[{\"question\":\"Where and when was Elizabeth Lucas born?\",\"answer\":\"Elizabeth Lucas was born in Antigua in the West Indies on December 28, 1722.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenges did Elizabeth face when trying to grow indigo?\",\"answer\":\"Her indigo plants died after frost, were damaged by cut-worms, and an expert intentionally spoiled the process to prevent others in South Carolina from learning.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Elizabeth succeed in making indigo dye?\",\"answer\":\"She watched carefully and, with help from enslaved people on the plantation, learned how indigo should be made, then spread seed through family and friends so the plants could be grown successfully.\"}]","Elizabeth Lucas - The Story of a Wise Colonial Woman | PDF",1792383897]