Sugar Changed the World Part II Vocabulary

After cutting the sugar cane, Europeans would place it into the boiling ____ within forty-eight hours.

• field

• vat

• pagan

• marzipan

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A large, heavy knife:

• dorm

• bolo

• machete

• malaria

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What did overseer Thomas Thistlewood refer to as "pickling"?

• The preservation of cucumbers in vinegar and spices.

• The preservation of sugar cane in vinegar and spices.

• The practice of rubbing pepper, salt and lime into the wounds of a slave.

• The practice of rubbing pepper, salt and lime into the eyes of a slave.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The bomba is a/an...

• ...explosive device built in Italy.

• ...tool used by weeders to get rid of the rats in the cane fields.

• ...a form of music and dance practiced by sugar workers in Puerto Rico.

• ...a way that overseers spread fear on the plantation.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Which of the following is a synonym of cauldron?

• Stalk

• plate

• Sink

• Pot

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

According to Part Two of Sugar Changed the World, who had the most power on plantations from the following choices? (only one answer)

• slaves

• overseers

• plowers

• women of the platform

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The act or an instance of buying and selling goods and services either on the domestic (wholesale and retail) markets -

• Stock Market

• Box Trade

• Spherical Trade

• Mothers of the Platform

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Some overseers believed in instilling fear in slaves to maintain control. One of these overseers was:

• Thomas Thistlewood

• Olaudah Equiano

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Baker

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

The first island in the Caribbean settled by Spaniards; settlement founded by Columbus on the second voyage to New World was...

• Hispaniola

• Louisana

• Hawaii

• Brazil

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

The first area of Spanish exploration and settlement was in the...

• Caribbean

• Mississippi River

• Arctic

• Pacific