The Sugar Revolution

ANSWER ALL OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

Multiple Choice

Items 1-10 are multiple choice items. Each item has four suggested
answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item carefully, then choose
the BEST answer by shading the letter of your choice using a PENCIL
ONLY.

1. In what year did the Sugar 4. All of the following were

Revolution begin? features of the Sugar
Revolution EXCEPT
(A) 1640
(B) 1645 (A) an increase demand for
(C) 1648 African slaves to work on
(D) 1650 the plantations.
(B) a decrease in the price of
2. Which group of Europeans had sugar in Europe.
a monopoly on trade in the (C) replacement of
West Indies in the mid 17th smallholdings by large
century? The plantations wherever sugar
was introduced.
(A) French (D) an increase in the interests
(B) Spanish taken by European
(C) Dutch governments in the
(D) English colonies.

3. What was the name of the 5. Sugar became the chief export
port in the English colonies crop of the English Caribbean
from which sugar was first in the Seventeenth century
exported? MAINLY because

(A) Bombay (A) it was the only sweetener

(B) Bristol available to consumers.
(C) Bridgetown (B) there was competition from
(D) Cape Coast Cuban tobacco.
(C) the planters made large
profits from it.
(D) the planters acquired the
skill of producing it.

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colonies and Britain.

6. Which of the following are

reasons why enslaved
Africans were brought to the
Caribbean in the seventeenth
century?

I. The Caribs resisted

enslavement.

II. Indentured labour was 8. African slaves and

in short supply. bondservants were similar in
all the following ways,
III. Sugar plantations EXCEPT they
needed more labour
than tobacco farms. (A) were badly treated by their
masters.
IV. Africans were willing to
work on sugar (B) both worked on plantations
plantation. in the West Indies.

(A) I and III only (C) were brought to the West

Indies on crowed ships.
(B) II and III only
(D) they were given a plot of
(C) I, II and III only land at the end of their
service.
(D) II, III and IV only
9. Which of the following is the
7. A change that occurred in the CORRECT order in terms of
British Caribbean as a result the size of the social groups in
of the Sugar Revolution in the slave society, from largest to
17th century was smallest?

(A) fewer small holdings and (A) Slaves, free blacks and
more large plantations. coloureds, whites
(B) Free blacks and coloureds,
(B) an overproduction of food slaves, whites
in the territories. (C) Whites, free blacks and
coloured, slaves
(C) an increase in the number (D) Whites, slaves, free blacks
of peasant farmers. and coloureds

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 10. Which of the resulted from the
cultivation of sugar cane in the (A) I and II only
Caribbean? (B) I and III only
(C) II and III only
I. The mulatto population (D) I, II and III
declined.
II. The black population
increased. (10 marks)
III. The number of land
owners declined.

Structured Questions

Answer in complete sentences.

11. Define TWO (2) of the following terms:

-Sugar Revolution - Absenteeism -Bondservants

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12. (a) (i) Which was the first British colony where sugar was planted.

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(ii) Name TWO (2) other British colonies where the Sugar
Revolution took place.

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(b) Name the TWO (2) French colonies where sugar was first planted
in the 1600’s.

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13. State TWO (2) ways the Dutch helped the English planters during the
Sugar Revolution.

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14. Discuss TWO (2) causes of the Sugar Revolution.

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15. Outline TWO (2) social consequences of the Sugar Revolution.

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16. Explain why bondservants did not meet the labour needs of the planters
in the Caribbean.

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17. Why was African labour introduced to the Caribbean in the 17 th
century?

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18. Complete the table below showing a comparison between tobacco and
sugar production.

Area Tobacco production Sugar production

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