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What Drove the Sugar Trade?

Mr. Scott

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What did it take to be a successful sugar merchant?

• Capital

• Rich People Were Sugar Traders• Land: It took a lot of land to grow sugar cane

3

What were the other major items traded at the time?

• Coffee

• All 3 of these were addictive substances

• Tea

• ADDICTIVE

• Tobacco

4

Who did the work to Produce the Sugar?

• Slaves • African Slaves did the Work

• Planted the sets• Cut down the Sugar

Cane• Crushed the Stalks• Collected the Juice• Made the Rum• Made the Molasses

5

What happens when you eat too much sugar?

• Sugar • Dentist

• Too Much Sugar will cause tooth decay

6

What was Mercantilism

Mercantilism Nations want to keep

gold for themselves

Gold

Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade

Sugar Trade

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What was the Triangle Slave Trade?

African Slaves who survive the middle passage brought to Caribbean from Africa and seasoned, broken and sold to other places

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Africans trade other Africans to

Europeans for rum, and other trinkets

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How is Sugar Produced?

Slaves Crush sugar cane to make juice

Slaves cut sugar cane down

Slaves Boil juice to make Rum and molasses

Slaves plant sugar cane in fields

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How much sugar, water, and fiber in a single stalk of sugar cane?

Sugar, Fiber and Water in 1 Stalk of sugar cane

10%

75%

15%

Fiber

Water

Sucrose

Questions Based on the Sugar Trade DBQ

Can you answer these “?’s”

• Who dominated the Sugar Trade in the new World?

• Provide evidence to support your conclusion from the documents.

• What is meant by the phrase “capital intense”?

• What impact did the sugar trade have on the slave trade?

• Why was the transatlantic slave trade so successful?

Can you answer these “?’s”

• Write the History equation that represents the Sugar Trade DBQ?

• Explain the equation?• What is an “attention grabber”

what is it used for?• What bucket does document 1,

5, 7, 9 belong?• Provide evidence from the

document do you have to support your choices?

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Questions Based on the Sugar Trade DBQ

Can you answer these “?’s”

• What is a DBQ?• What does the bucket P?• Define the bucket E?• Define the bucket A?• Define the bucket C?• What is found on the

source line?• Define the concept

authors bias?

Can you answer these “?’s”

• Define the concept of main idea?

• Draw and explain the Triangle Slave Trade.

• Define the Columbian Exchage.

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