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Match the colonists with their contributions to society. Eliza Lucas Pinckney Peter Zenger Benjamin Franklin helped to increase colonial exports by successfully cultivating indigo arrowRight introduced public services such as the library and the post office arrowRight helped to establish freedom of the press in colonial America arrowRight

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1. Eliza Lucas Pinckney.

2. Benjamin Franklin.

3. Peter Zenger.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Eliza Lucas Pinckney: helped to increase colonial exports by successfully cultivating indigo. She introduced indigo to the South Carolina Colony by developing it as an important cash crop.

Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) is a plant used as natural dye and it originated from the Middle East. This plant was considered a symbol of wealth and power because it was so valuable and scarce in time past. The British government encouraged the colonial farmers to farm or produce indigo by offering a bonus of six (6) pence per pounds on the exportation of indigo.

2. Benjamin Franklin: introduced public services such as the library and the post office. Benjamin Franklin in 1775 founded and opened the first ever post office in the United States of America, it was known as United States Postal Service. Also, Benjamin founded the Library Company of Philadelphia by conceiving the great idea of a subscription-based library in America.

3. Peter Zenger: helped to establish freedom of the press in colonial America. He was known as a German printer and a journalist who printed the New York Weekly Journal in New York city, United States of America. In 1734, Peter had a libelous suit made against him by the governor of New York, William Cosby. He was subsequently discharged and acquitted, these resulted in a victory for the freedom of press in the English Colony of North America controlled by English kings.

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