"Sugar Changed the World" Prologue Vocabulary

The plantation house has large windows with lattice shutters covering the windows.

• diamond or squared shaped design

• deteriorated

• valuable

• Russian designed

What is this a picture of?

• dowry

• bottom-house

• serf

• czar

Before slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, many African men and women spent their lives working in cane fields.

• encouraged

• made more strict by increasing laws

• done away with

• forgotten

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Serfs were often required to work the land and could be bought and sold at their master's will.

• slave quarters

• slaves

• Russian emperor

• something of value given at marriage

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A woman's father would often offer a ________ to a man before marriage.

• serf

• bottom-house

• dowry

• piece of sugar cane

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

In her senility, my grandmother stared at the house with longing, trying to remember the days when it felt more like a prison.

• deteriorating old age

• illness

• sleep-like state

• craziness

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sugar cane, the stake that was driven into the heart of slaves, also fostered the beginnings of lifelong freedom.

• opressed

• encouraged

• adopted

• created

Nina's mother approached the czar for permission to divorce her husband in the Russian Orthodox Church.

• Pastor

• Police

• Husband's grandfather

• Russian emperor