Sugar Quiz #5 Review

Does the following statement apply to Sugar Changed the World or the article "Sugar?"

The increased production of sugar had sustained hidden costs, including economic colonization.

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As global trade in sugar increased, so too did the spread of ideas about individual independence and human freedom.

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The spread of sugar consumption was boosted by loss leader sales, whereby shopkeepers would attract customers by selling sugar below cost.

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The demand for sugar led to a dramatic increase in slavery, the slave trade, and global production of sugar.

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Although Americans rebelled against their colonial masters, they did not deal with the problem of enslaving people in their own country.

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The increased consumption of sugar, especially by poor workers, played a key role in the industrial revolution and the transformation of the world economy.

How was Sugarcane Farming portrayed in the video?

Choose the best answer.

• In “Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer” sugarcane farming is presented as a difficult profession filled with manual labor and uncertainty.

• In “Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer” sugarcane farming is presented as a profession with good and bad years for farmers.

• In “Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer” sugarcane farmers must work to conserve their soil for future generations through soil conservation programs.

• In “Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer” sugarcane farming is presented as the fulfillment of a family dream and an important source of income;

How is Sugarcane farming portrayed in the text Sugar Changed the World?

• In Sugar Changed the World, sugar is presented as a crop that was consistently profitable for plantation owners.

• In Sugar Changed the World, sugarcane farmers used crop rotation to preserve the soil.

• In Sugar Changed the World sugarcane farming is presented as physically easy and stable work.

• In Sugar Changed the World, the authors show how the owners of sugar plantations, motivated by profit, used violence to enslave Africans and make them carry out the work of producing sugar.

What is the central idea of Sugar Changed the World?

• The sugar industry had positive and negative affects on the world.

• There were and continue to be many hidden costs in the production of sugar.

• Sugar had a profound impact on shaping trade, politics, and borders from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

• Despite the hardships they faced, people who were enslaved played a key role in ushering in the Age of Freedom.

Which statement describes a purpose for writing that Whipps, Aronson, and Budhos share?

• To illuminate the fact that Britain’s desire to keep the sugar islands was a contributing factor in their loss of the American colonies.

• To persuade the reader that their theories about global trade were more correct than other popular theories.

• To trace the expansion of the sugar trade around the world, including the shifting regions of production over time.

• To explain the profound impact of the production and trade of sugar on global economies, governments, and societies