Sugar Revolution

Question 1

Difficulties experienced by Christopher Columbus’ reign BEFORE THE SUGAR REVOLUTION.

Answer 1

• Food was scarce because of the unreliability (e.g. pirates)
• Lack of experience in agriculture, can’t grow their own food.
• Few social services, not alot of medical, education and spiritual facilitation.
• rough terrain caused transportation and communication problems

Question 2

some ways Christopher Columbus affected Europe

Answer 2

claimed more land expansion of the empire
creation of new markets for their goods (money, profit )
spread of Christianity (Catholicism, R.C.)
death by War; indigenous people engaged in guerrilla warfare

Question 3

Sugar Revolution

Answer 3

the change over from cultivating tobacco to sugar cane and the changes that accompanied this cross over

Question 4

Causes

Answer 4

• Fall in West Indian tobacco prices
• quality + quantity of Virginia tobacco better than Trinidad’s
• cheaper alternative to honey as a sweetener
  (sweetener for coffee and tea)

Question 5

Dutch

Answer 5

Architects of slavery…supplied labour, capital, etc.

Question 6

Effects of the Sugar Revolution

Answer 6

• Land tenure changed (they used large acres of land) for cattle (mills, food, transport, ploughing)
• space for crops
• woodland & timber area to build slave cottages

Question 7

Effects of the Sugar Revolution (continued)

Answer 7

• price of land increased (Barbados increased * 30 times)
• change in size of social division, the blacks came to be more than the whites
• mono-culture which is basically the reliance or growth of one crop to make money

Question 8

As an effect of the sugar revolution, society became stratified/classified/divided

Answer 8

whites- grand blancs, petit blancs
coloureds- mulattoes
enslaved- domestic slaves, artisans like the carpenters and boiling people and lastly, field slaves

Question 9

Society was divided on what grounds

Answer 9

criteria:
wealth
colour
race
status
power- legislative power (made laws by/during local assemblies)

Question 10

Social division of slaves on age, sex and location in Africa

Answer 10

Domestic
Artisans
Factor
Field

Question 11

Social division among whites based on

Answer 11

Wealth
Education
Family Background
social mobility

Question 12

Absenteeism

Answer 12

Planters were absentee owners, sometimes took care of the slaves while they were in England (didn’t want to be in social exile/loneliness and also conscience; couldn’t deal with the brutality of slavery), lack of cultural life, no educational facilities for children

Question 13

Disadvantages of absenteeism

Answer 13

• mismanagement of estate leading to a decline in its value
• decline in efficiency lead to abuse and Corruption
• increase in balance of black people to white people
• increased chance of rebellion

Question 14

Advantages of absenteeism

Answer 14

• pow
  prisoners of war