Sugar Section 3 Review

Which statement best describes the authors’ claim that sugar was the connection between slavery and freedom?

• The global demand for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.

•  In order to produce large amounts of sugar, Europeans and colonists destroyed Africans.

• he same time that they were exploiting Africans, Europeans decided they wanted more freedom themselves.

•  Europeans no longer wanted to be ruled by a king but wanted a vote themselves.

Which statement best supports the the authors’ claim that sugar was the connection between slavery and freedom?

• “In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects.” 

• “Just at that very same moment, Europeans—at home and across the Atlantic—decided that they could no longer stand being objects themselves.”

•   “They each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge the rules of crowned kings and royal princes.”

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

How does the excerpt support the authors' central idea that the global trade of sugar and ideas impacted the entire world in both positive and negative ways?

• Global trade led to the spread of ideas of freedom but did not advance abolitionist goals in France or England.

• The sugar trade caused the revolution in France, which created chaos and prevented progress in other nations.

• The sugar trade led to the spread of ideas of personal freedom and, ultimately, revolution. However, revolutions often had violent and deadly consequences.

• The sugar trade led to the spread of ideas of freedom and revolution. However, these ideas caused Americans and others to turn their back on the revolutions around the world.

Back in France, the government that had abolished slavery was in the process of destroying itself. The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. This is like so many regimes in which, to this day, a tyrant claims he is helping the people while he jails his opponents and robs his nation. Great ideas cover up brutal behavior.

What is the meaning of paradox as it is used in the excerpt?  

• problem

• contradiction

• concern

• absurdity

Which of the following statements apply to the Haitian Revolution.

• Victory was hampered by the lack of recognition from the international community

• People believed in the independence of one group while still considering another group property.

• After victory, leaders announced that all men were equal, meaning that no man were property

• Subjects went to war when they felt their colonial masters were unfair, but they left the problem of enslaving people themselves to be resolved later

Which of the following statements apply to the American Revolution.

• Victory was hampered by the lack of recognition from the international community

• People believed in the independence of one group while still considering another group property.

• After victory, leaders announced that all men were equal, meaning that no man were property

• Subjects went to war when they felt their colonial masters were unfair, but they left the problem of enslaving people themselves to be resolved later

Which of the following statements apply to BOTH the Haitian Revolution and the American Revolution?

• People were fighting for liberty, equality, and fraternity.

• People believed in the independence of one group while still considering another group property.

• After victory, leaders announced that all men were equal, meaning that no man were property

• People rebelled against the colonial power with far more people, money, and power than they had.