Sugar and Economics Assignments

Sugar Vocab (find answers on The Sugar Industry in Hawaii paper)

Directions: Write the word, give the definition, and use the word in a sentence for each of the words below:

 

                Old Sugar Mill of Koloa                The Reciprocity Treaty of 1875American Civil War                     The Big Five           the businessmen of missionary families               Amfac                                    missionaries 

 Example:

word

definition sentence
 Amfac  A modern name for American Factors a sugar corporation in Hawaii.   Amfac was one of the “Big 5” sugar corporations that controlled the sugar industry in Hawaii. 

 

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Sugar Graphs

 Directions: Set up your paper like this:

Sugar graphs

Line graph  
Bar graph   

 Step one: make 2 graphs of the following information one a line graph and one a bar graph.

Sugar exports in tons

Year

Exports
1850 .4
1860 .7
1870 9.4
1880 31.8
1890 129.9

 Step two:  On the back of your paper write and answer the following questions:1. What do the graphs show?   

2. Use your cornell notes to explain why sugar exports ____________from 1850 to 1890:

 

 

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Sugar Industry Cause and Effect

Directions: Use the boxes below to explain how the sugar industry began in Hawaii. Answer the questions in sentences (restate the question in the answer) and drawings for each box

CAUSE-Why did Kamehameha pass the Mahele? (be specific) Who was involved and what did they do? Who were they related to?

EFFECT ONE-What was the mahele? What did it do?

EFFECT TWO-What businesses began because of the Mahele?Who were the Big 5?

IMPACT OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY-What were the political social, economic effects of the sugar industry on Hawaii? Give both good and bad effects.

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Don't forget to ask your family members to share their memories of Hawaii's sugar plantation era!

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