Use context to determine the meaning of the word prosperity as it is used in marigolds. write your definition of "prosperity" here and tell how you got it.

Prosperity, as it is used in "The marigolds", means success or wealth. But in the context of the Great Depression, and for black people, it would mean not poor, having a job and make ends meet. Prosperity doesn't mean the same for white and for black, the American dream doesn't come true for anyone in this period, but especially for black people.

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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