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AMH2010
Exam 1
5
History
Undergraduate 2
02/03/2011

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Term
Sugar, Caribbean islands
Definition
The ________ process was intenseā€¦ getting the juice from the cane then making it pure was lots of work after farming the sugar cane. This is why English started importing so many slaves to the __________ _______.
Term
Barbados
Definition
By 1650 the English produced 150,000 lbs of sugar in ________. By 1700, they had produced 50 million lbs of sugar from ________
Term
13 colonies
Definition
Only 4% of slaves brought to the new world were taken to _________.
Term
Eli Whitney
Definition
_________ invented the Cotton Engine in the 1790s. Pulled the cotton through teeth which separated the cotton from seeds.
Term
africans
Definition
_________ have slaves and think english will treat them the same way so agree to sell people for goods.
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