Sugar Changed the World
Overseers feared slaves were using ____ to send messages and spread thoughts of rebellion.
drums
How many pounds of sugar is consumed by a single person each year?
100 pounds
What was one of the main cost of the sugar industry expanding?
Slavery
What is the meaning of lynchpin as it is used in the excerpt? "Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker-- the meeting place of barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. And yet, for that very reason sugar also became the lynchpin of the struggle for freedom."
essential
Workers from which country were the first to replace the former slave labor forces after slavery was abolished in the New World?
India
The first country to abolish slavery was ____.
France
Sugar cane — native to Southeast Asia — first made its way to the New World with Christopher Columbus during his voyage in what year?
1492
Name at least one way that sugar affected the environment in numerous ways:
Forests must be cleared to plant sugar
Wood or fossil fuel is needed in processing steps
Waste products from processing affect the environment
Parallel consumption of other items related to sugar, including coffee, tea, chocolate, etc all collectively put additional resource requirements on the environment
Decide whether the following statements apply to Sugar Changed the World, "Sugar," or both. As global trade in sugar increased, so too did the spread of ideas about individual liberty and human freedom.
Sugar Changed the World
Name one example of a maroon community.
Palmares
T/F
Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World and introduced sugar cane to Hispaniola in 1492.
True
Britain lost its 13 American colonies to independence in part because its military was busy protecting its______
Sugar Islands
In Guatemala and Colombia, there is strong evidence that the Coca-Cola company actively supported ____
the murders of union activists
Decide whether the following statements apply to Sugar Changed the World, "Sugar," or both. The spread of sugar consumption was boosted by loss leader sales, whereby shopkeepers would attract customers by selling sugar below cost.
Sugar
T/F
In a blatant display of racism, the Black Act (created in the 1900s) required Indians to register and be fingerprinted for tracking purposes.
true
Thomas Thistlewood called the act of whipping a slave and then rubbing pepper, salt, and lime into his wounds_____.
Pickling
What was the central idea of How Sugar Changed the World?
Sugar changed the world in positive and negative ways
Who was the ultimate "market " for sugar commercials?
children
Decide whether the following statements apply to Sugar Changed the World, "Sugar," or both. Although Americans rebelled against their colonial masters, they did not deal with slavery and the ownership of slaves in their own country.
Sugar Changed the World
A maroon community is a place where __________
escaped slaves hid
The central idea of Sugar Changed the World is that ________________.
Sugar had a positive and negative effect on the world
Sugar slavery was the key component in what historians call The Trade Triangle. What is The Trade Triangle?
A network whereby slaves were sent to work on New World Plantations. The product was sold and new goods were sent to Africa to buy more slaves.
What is the central idea for Sugar?
Sugar had many hidden cost.
Decide whether the following statements apply to Sugar Changed the World, "Sugar," or both. The increased consumption of sugar, especially by poor workers, played a key role in the industrial revolution and the transformation of the world economy.
both
Sugar can be made from plants other than sugar cane. What was a plant used to create sugar in Eastern Europe (Russia)?
Beets