Sugar Changed the World

What was one of the three uses of sugar in ancient India?

• It was administered as a medicine

• It combined with sulphur to make gunpowder

• It served as an important food preservative

• It became a form of currency

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Sugar cane was planted on fertile islands in the Mediterranean after---

• merchants brought cane cuttings back from their trading trips to Syria

• Europeans returned from the Crusades with skills learned from the Muslims

• Captain Cook brought back shiploads of cane and slaves from Hawaii

• visiting scholars from Jundi Shapur arrived in Italy

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After sugar cane was crushed into a pale syrup, the syrup was---

• boiled, strained, and turned into crystals

• poured into square, wooden mold

• carried in small buckets to the turning wheels

• cooled until a hard, thin shell formed on top

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Maroons were slaves who---

• ran away and lived beyond the control of the planters

• had lost a limb in the grinding mill wheels

• used machetes to harvest the ripened sugar cane plants

• worked in the Great House, rather than in the fields or mills

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Why was sugar a staple food in England during the 1800s?

• It was part of the free trade between Britain and Mediterranean islands

• It was used in factory workers' tea to give them quick energy

• It helped disguise the smell of rotting fish that came from the docks

• It filled a "sweet shortage" caused by a mysterious decimation of honeybees

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Toussaint became the leader of the freedom fighters who---

• refused to sign the registration cards required by the Black Act

• stormed the Bastille in protests of new laws regarding slavery

• overthrew the sugar plantation owners in Louisiana

• demolished one thousand plantations on Saint Domingue

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Why did Thomas Jefferson refuse to recognize the Republic of Haiti?

• Such recognition would hinder his future dealings with Great Britain

• Napoleon threatened to close French trade routes to the US if he did

• The Haitian rebellion had caused the price of sugar to triple in the US

• He thought ex-slaves from the island would preach rebellion to US slaves

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Hawaiian sugar growers tried to keep wages low by---

• hiring different ethnic groups to compete against each other

• planting spies amongst the crews to identify disgruntled workers

• using slaves to do the work of "the hogmeat" gang

• forcing male workers to reside without families on the plantations

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After slavery was abolished in England, Caribbean sugar planters began---

• converting the fields to sugar beets

• hiring low-cost field-workers from Brazil

• using indentured laborers from India

• sending their sugar cane to mills in Louisiana

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The first major act of Ghandi's Satyagraha was---

• a peaceful sit-in at the English government offices Natal

• a boycott of any sugar not processed in Indian mills

• widespread refusal to fulfill contracts of indentured servitude

• the burning of certificates required of all Indians in South Africa

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