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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 intense… 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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