Marquise May

English

16 November, 23:14

Read the passage, then answer the questions that follow. Which sentence best states the central idea of the

By the turn of the twentieth century, the colonies were

passage?

changing. Sugar still dominated the local economy. But

now there were more and more "free" workers-those Which quotation from the passage is a detail that best

who had moved off the estates and lived in their own

supports the central idea?

houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their

own businesses. There were Indian shopkeepers, traders,

and rice growers. The Africans, too, had migrated to the

cities, where they became clerks, teachers, or servants in

wealthy households. A new society was emerging-one

that had its roots in the dark history of slavery but was

also moving into the future.

-Sugar Changed the World,

Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos