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How sugar built a slave world

History · World History · ages 16-18
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. How did colonial law define status by ancestry?

    • Status was drawn by lottery
    • A child's status followed the mother
    • Status changed with the seasons

  2. Why did plantation crops drive demand for forced labour?

    • Deadly gang work that free workers refused for low pay
    • Planters enjoyed paying high wages
    • Crops harvested themselves

  3. Hereditary status gave owners a free supply of new workers.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Which three acts count as resistance on plantations?

    • Praising the overseer, longer hours, and silence
    • Slowing work, running away, and revolt
    • Buying the plantation outright

  5. Ask of any colony what it grew. Why does the crop answer so much?

    • Crops chose their own workers
    • Soil type sets all laws
    • Gang crops pushed planters toward lifetime forced labour

  6. Bankers in Amsterdam profit from sugar without touching cane. What does this show?

    • Only planters earned anything
    • Sugar trade lost money everywhere
    • A web of money sustained slavery beyond the plantation

  7. Sugar demand in Europe reorganises three continents. Which chain is right?

    • American demand, European captives, African plantations
    • No continents were involved
    • Europe demand, African captives, American plantations

  8. After 1804, a slave colony bans meetings, reading, and travel. What explains the panic?

    • A sudden love of libraries
    • Fear that Haiti could repeat itself there
    • Too many holidays
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  1. A child's status followed the mother · Birth to an enslaved mother meant lifelong bondage.
  2. Deadly gang work that free workers refused for low pay · Sugar and tobacco needed huge gangs at harvest time.
  3. True · Children inherited bondage, locking families in forever.
  4. Slowing work, running away, and revolt · Resistance ran from sabotage and escape to open revolt.
  5. Gang crops pushed planters toward lifetime forced labour · The harvest gang explains why slavery hardened there.
  6. A web of money sustained slavery beyond the plantation · Ports, insurers, and lenders all earned from the system.
  7. Europe demand, African captives, American plantations · European sugar demand made planters buy lifetime gang workers.
  8. Fear that Haiti could repeat itself there · Haiti proved revolt could beat three empires in turn.
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