Sugar Changed the World AR Practice

What was one of sugar's three uses in ancient India?

• It combined with sulfur to make gunpowder.

• It was administered as a medicine.

• It became a form of currency.

• It served as an important food preservative.

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

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

• Visiting scholars from Jundi Shapur arrived in Italy.

• Merchants brought cane cuttings back from their trading trips to Syria.

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

After sugar cane was crushed into a pale syrup, the syrup was ___.

• carried in small buckets to the turning wheels

• boiled, strained and turned into crystals

• cooled until a hard, thin shell formed on top

• poured into square, wooden molds

Maroons were slaves who ___.

• ran away and lived beyond the control of the planters

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

• had lost a limb in the grinding mill wheels

• used machetes to harvest the ripened sugar cane plants

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

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

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

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

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

Toussaint became the leader of the freedom fighters who ___?

• overthrew the sugar plantation owners in Louisiana

• stormed the Bastille in protest of new laws regarding slavery

• demolished one thousand plantations on Saint Domingue

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

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

• The Haitian rebellion had caused the price of sugar to triple in the U.S.

• Such recognition would hinder his future dealings with Great Britain.

• He thought ex-slaves from the island would preach rebellion to U.S. slaves.

• Napoleon threatened to close French trade routes to the U.S. if he did.

Hawaiian sugar growers tried to keep wages low by ___?

• forcing male workers to reside without families on the plantations

• hiring different ethnic groups to compete against each other

• planting spies among the crews to identify disgruntled workers

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

After slavery was abolished in England, Caribbean sugar planters began ___.

• using indentured laborers from India

• converting their fields to sugar beets

• hiring low-cost field-workers from Brazil

• sending their sugar cane to mills in Louisiana

The first major act of Gandhi's Satyagraha was ___.

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