What crop brought slavery to the Americas?
sugarcane
cottom
bananas
The plantation economies of the New World were built on
slave labor
sugarcane production
Of the enslaved people brought to the new world were used to produce ____________ the most labor-intensive crop
sugar
coffee
tobacco
cotton
Most enslaved people were taken to _________________ to work as unpaid labor on sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, or in houses to work as servants.
North and South America
Europe
Africa
China
For thousands of years people have used the sap and juice extracted from plants to obtain sweet syrups. Examples include ____________________
wild date palm, sugar palm, sorghum, and sugar maple
wild date palm, sugarcane, sorghum, and sugar maple
Today only two plant sources provide most of the natural sweeteners:
sugar beet and sugar cane
sugar palm and sugar cane
sugar beet and sugar maple
_________________ is the home of a cultivated form of sugarcane
New Guinea
North America
Singapore
Tropical products such as __________________ have had major impact on slavery and colonialism.
sugar, tea, and bananas
sugar, sugar cane, and bananas
apples, oranges, and tea
noble canes
Saccharum officinarum
Saccharum canofficianarum
Sugar cane had become the crop of choice in _______________________
Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba (caribbean islands)
Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Belize (south america)
International trading companies moved goods—and people— across the Atlantic Ocean in a pattern known as the
triangular trade
square trade
The slaves were shipped to the West Indies where they were sold. The profits bought ________________________ which were sent back to Europe
sugar, coffee, cotton, and tobacco
sugar, coffee, cotton, and maple
England would sell slaves to the americas and bought
rum and sugar
tobacco and sugar cane
cotton and tobacco
This is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane byproducts such as molasses, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation
Rum
Alcohol
Brandy
The ______________________ was the acquisition in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France’s claim to the territory of Louisiana. It doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Constitution
__________ is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in every fruit and vegetable
Sugar
Cotton
Meat
Sugar occurs in greatest quantities in ___________________ from which it is separated for commercial use.
sugarcane and sugar beets
sugar beets and sugar maple
Photosynthesis
6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
6H2O + 6O2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
6O2 + 6O2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6CO2
Fruit sugar is called
fructose
lactose
maltose
glucose
milk sugar is called
malt sugar is called
sugar from honey or sweet fruits is called
Sucrose:
glucose + fructose
maltose + fructose
lactose + fructose
Top agricultural product:
Sugar Cane
Wheat
Sugar Beet
A ton (2000 lbs.) of cane yields ____________ of raw sugar.
170 – 255 lbs.
100 – 255 lbs.
200 – 255 lbs.
500 - 550 lbs.
_____________ is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane are crushed to extract their juice
Bagasse
Molasses
___________ is a viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar.
Top Sugarcane Producer
India
Colombia
Brazil
beta vulgaris
beta begaris
Top Sugar Beet Producers
France
Germany
United States
40% of the sugar we consume is in _______________
sugar beets
sugar canes
soft drinks
Stevia rebaudiana 
sweet leaf
sweat tea