Sugar Changed the World BR

A central idea of the text is that sugar is the driving force causing ______ and ________ effects in the world.

• meaningless

• positive

• crucial

• negative

Choose which two details support the central idea of the text.

• Negatively, sugar led to revolutions that caused destruction and consequences.

• Negatively, sugar led to revolutions that caused chaos in many nations.

• Positively, sugar spread ideas of freedom and revolution.

• Positively, sugar led to global trade, but this didn't help people fighting slavery in Europe.

What is significant about the story of Pauline?

• Her story shows the conflict between what the French thought of slaves in France and slaves in the sugar islands.

• Her story shows why religion is important.

• Her story shows that the church and the government viewed slavery differently.

Sugar was the connection between slavery and freedom because________

• it was very profitable and popular in Europe and the Americas

• the global demand for it led to the end of slavery

• it made Europeans realize they were exploiting African slaves

• it made Europeans realize they didn't want to be ruled by kings and queens

What "Act" added 6 cents to every gallon that did not come from England?

• Sugar

• Stamp

• Molasses

How did the colonists' feel after all they went through with the taxes?

• It would have been better if they stayed in England.

• It was taxation without representation

• It was worse than being a slave.

What are the three principles behind the French Revolution?

• Love, Faith, and Brotherhood

• Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (Brotherhood)

• Peace, Love, and Music

Who wrote an essay in England about the legality of slavery that influenced the abolitionist movement in that country?

• Thomas Thistlewood

• Pierre Lemerre

• Winston Churchill

• Thomas Clarkson

abolishment

• the beginning of something

• an industrial installation where a substance is refined

• the act of having been done away with

• selling of goods or services

What happened in July of 1789?

• Thomas Jefferson finished writing the Declaration of Independence.

• Parisians stormed the Bastille, setting off the French Revolution.

• The Female Society of Birmingham began to protest slavery.

• Abolitionists began to lose popularity in England.