Answer:
The details about sugar's dependency on slavery help inform readers about why sugar was inexpensive.
Explanation:
In this text, the author explains that sugar was a cheap commodity during this time period. This was the case despite the fact that sugar was produced thousands of miles away. The main idea of this excerpt is that sugar was such an inexpensive good because it relied on slavery. By using free labor, production costs were kept extremely low, allowing for sugar to be inexpensive, and therefore, popular all over the world.
Answer:
Ambitious mean having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
I believe the correct answer is B. It is the only sentence where the punctuation marks are correctly placed. For the first sentence, the apostrophe in Dorris should be placed in the last letter of the name and an s is not to be added since the name ends with an s. For option C, some commas should be inserted in the sentence to make sense of the sentence. And, for the last option, the semi colon is not to be used instead a period should be placed.
