Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world.
if you walked down beekman street in new york in
the 1750s, you would come to a general store owned
by gerard beekman—his family gave the street its
name. the products on his shelves showed many of
the ways sugar was linking the world. beekman and
merchants like him shipped out bread, corn, salted
bcef, and wood to the caribbean, they brought back
sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, and ginger.
simple enough, but this trade up and down the
atlantic coast was part of a much larger world
system.
textbooks talk about the triangle trade: ships set out
from europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple
manufactured goods to africa, where they sold their
cargoes and bought people. the enslaved people
were shipped across the atlantic to the islands, where
they were sold for sugar. then the ships brought sugar
which evidence best supports the authors claim and
purpose?
○ \simple enough, but this trade up and down the
atlantic coast was part of a much larger world
system.\
○ \beekmans trade, for example, could cut out
europe entirely.\
○ \africans who sold other africans as slaves reacted
on being paid in fabrics from india.\
○ \what could the europeans use to buy indian
cloth?\

Explanation:

To determine the best evidence, we analyze the authors' claim (sugar linked the world, part of a larger system) and purpose (showing global trade connections).

• Option 1: "Simple enough, but this trade up and down the Atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system." directly connects Beekman’s local trade to the broader global (world) system, supporting the claim that sugar (and related trade) linked the world.
• Option 2: Focuses on Beekman cutting out Europe, not the global system.
• Option 3: Discusses African slave traders’ reaction, not the global trade system’s scope.
• Option 4: Asks a question, not evidence.

So Option 1 is the best as it explicitly ties the local trade to the larger world system, matching the authors’ claim and purpose.

Answer:

A. "Simple enough, but this trade up and down the Atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system."