Answers LISD English II ASugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

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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How does this passage support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery in some parts of the world?

It emphasizes that Parliament was biased toward plantation owners and wrongfully supported them.

It shows that the French followed the example of the English in overthrowing the crown to free enslaved people.

It describes how testimony on the brutal practices on sugar plantations convinced Parliament to end the slave trade.

It demonstrates that neither Britain nor France wanted to make changes in the practice of slavery until America did.

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