Analyzing Conflicting Viewpoints review

What does the term unabated mean?

• being at full strength/ resistance

• not being answered correctly

• being unassisted / helpless

• Not being the bate for a trap

The sugar industry was burgeoning. What does the term BURGEONING mean?

• rapidly failing

• rapidly growing or increasing

• rapidly declining

• incredibly overpopulated

The commodities at the dock are not being released until the tariffs have been paid. What do the terms COMMODITIES and TARRIFFS mean?

• goods and fees

• daily necessities and law enforcement fees

• luxuries and necessities

• foodstuffs and fees

Both "Sugar Changed the World "by Aronson and Budhos and "Sugar changed the world by Whipps have the same purpose that includes all of the following. Pick all the correct answers.

• sugar production

• economic failure of Latin America

• global sugar and slave trade

• impacts of various governments and societies

• positive and negative economic impacts

What are true facts only found in the text "Sugar" by Anup Shah

• As global trade in sugar increased so did the spread of the ideas of freedom and liberity

• Shopkeepers would attract customers by selling sugar below cost

• The increased production of sugar has sustained hidden cost

• Although Americans fought for freedom against Great Britian, they did not give the same freedoms to their slaves.

• Coca-Cola doesn't give the same freedoms to their Latin American Subsidiaries.

Identify the true facts that are only found in "Sugar Changed the World" by Aronson and Budhos.

• The spread of sugar consumption was boosted by leader sales.

• Sugar was responsible for the spread of ideas such as individual liberties and human freedoms.

• The demand for sugar led to a dramatic increase of white tenant farmers in the Carribean.

• The increased use of sugar played a key role in the development of the English Parliment

• Americans rebelled against Great Brittian, their colonial masters, however they didn't recognize that they created another problem by enslaving people in their own country.

What are ideas and facts that were discussed in both "Sugar" and "Sugar Changed the World".

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

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

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

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

What ideas are related to both "Sugar Changed the World" and the "Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer"

• In "Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer" sugarcane farming is presented as a difficult profession filled with manual labor and uncertainty; whereas, in "Sugar Changed the World" sugarcane farming is presented physically easy and stable work.

• In "Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer" sugarcane farming is presented as the fulfillment of a family dream and an important source of income; whereas, 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.

• In "Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer" sugarcane farming is presented as a profession with good and bad years for farmers; whereas, in "Sugar Changed the World" sugar is presented as a crop that was consistently profitable for plantation owners.

• In "Louisiana Sugarcane Farmer" sugarcane farmers must work to conserve their soil for future generations through soil conservation programs; whereas, in "Sugar Changed the World" sugarcane farmers used crop rotation to preserve the soil.

What quotation best supports "Sugar had a profound impact on shaping trade, politics, and borders from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries"

• "Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

• "White Gold, as British colonists called it, was the engine of the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to the Americas ... The history of every nation in the Caribbean ... and parts of the Southern United States was forever shaped by sugar cane plantations started as cash crops by European superpowers."

• "[Sugar farming is] the only thing I've ever done. I grew up on a farm and it's the only thing I've ever wanted to do."

• "The consumption of sugar and its history gives a great insight into various interrelated issues, such as economics, human rights, slavery, environmental issues, health, consumerism issues and so on. We also see a hint at the "hidden costs" and impacts to society."

Identify the central idea that both Whipps version and Aronson and Budhos' version of "Sugar Changed the World," have in common.

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

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

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