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WorksheetsSugar Changed the World Part 3
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 3hrs 45mins
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.
Who is Pierre Lemerre the Younger?
The man who seized power in France after the French Revolution.
The man who told Madame Villeneuve that Pauline had to go back to the sugar islands with her.
The man who made the case that all slaves should be freed.
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
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.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
A famous New Orleans musician who recorded a great record with Elvis Costello.
A composer of songs sung by slaves on the sugar island of Saint Domingue.
A French abolitionist.
The leader of the slave revolt in Haiti.
Saint Domingue is known today as...?
Jamaica
Haiti
Brazil
Pierre Part
What were the three great principles behind the French Revolution? (Choose THREE ANSWERS)
Liberty
Equality
Prosperity
Fraternity
Which of the following happened in 1779?
A regiment of free black men fought in the American Revolution and came back with ideas of freedom.
Toussaint and his armies fought back against the English.
The British gave up on their mission to re-enslave the Haitians.
True or False: Thomas Jefferson supported the Haitian slave revolt.
True
False
What was Louisiana's role in the sugar industry in the late 1700s?
Louisiana was the best place in the region to grow sugar.
Louisiana gave former Haitian slave owners a second chance to produce sugar using slaves.
Napoleon sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson for fifteen million dollars in 1803.
What TWO things made Hawaii different than other sugar producing areas? (CHOOSE TWO)
Hawaii sugar was grown by free men and women.
Hawaii was centrally located in the Caribbean, and therefore easier to get to.
Sugar was already growing in Hawaii and didn't need to be transplanted.
Pineapples are awesome.
