10/29 Social Studies Assignment

What is produced from sugarcane?

• Cinnamon

• Sugar

• Flour

• Salt

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

• TRUE

• FALSE

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

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

• TRUE

• FALSE

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

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

• Fields

• Farms

• Plantations

• Prices

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

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