10/29 Social Studies Assignment

What is produced from sugarcane?

• Cinnamon

• Sugar

• Flour

• Salt

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

TRUE or FALSE: Sugarcane needs a cold environment to grow.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Europe did not have the right climate to grow sugar, so they had to _____ for it.

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

TRUE or FALSE: Sugarcane grew especially well on islands in the Caribbean Sea.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

What is the word that is used to describe "a crop that people grow to sell and make money?"

• Sugarcane

• Cash crop

• Plantation

• A farm

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

When large areas of land were used to grow only one kind of cash crop, they became known as what?

• Fields

• Farms

• Plantations

• Prices

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

Sugarcane does not produce _____, so someone had to cut hard stalks in pieces by hand and then plant them.

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

TRUE or FALSE: As plantation owners earned more money from sugar, they looked for ways to get cheap labor to plant, harvest, and process the sugar.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: When many people died or risked punishment to escape enslavement, plantation owners turned to the slave trade from Europe.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Where did sugar become easier to buy as the supply increased?

• Africa

• Australia

• Europe

• North America