Answers FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - FlexSugar Changed the World, Part 2: Central Ideas

Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims Answers

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Which quotation states the claim of the passage?

“In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans.”

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

“Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves?”

“The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.”

Which quotation provides evidence to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

“The English public . . . knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.”

“Every Englishman who . . . built the barrels to hold slave-harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade.”

“The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property.”

“While that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity.”

How do the authors use historical details to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

by demonstrating how taxation drove the abolitionist movement in America

by illustrating Americans’ belief that all people should be free

by emphasizing Parliament’s bias toward plantation owners

by showing that Americans feared being enslaved by the English king

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