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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was Matthias Schleiden from?

2. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?

3. What did soldiers and salt workers set up next to the salt works?

4. What did Union forces destroy in West Virginia in 1862?

5. What famous company did a man named Birdseye form?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Dead Sea become a health spa?

2. How did Morton become the world's largest salt producer?

3. How did Britain change the salt industry in India?

4. How did the northern states immediately get one over the southern states at the start of the Civil War?

5. How did the American War of Independence begin?

6. How did the Indians react to the British banning the trade of their salt?

7. How did the French finance minister reform the salt taxes?

8. Why do people believe the Dead Sea is so salty?

9. Why was India ruled entirely by a British government in 1857?

10. How did the South finally get its supplies of salt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does salt play in today's society? Why is it likely salt will always play a major part in society?

Essay Topic 2

How did the salt trade help to develop transport systems in Europe and America? How did countries use these trading systems during times of conflict?

Essay Topic 3

In what way has salt been an indicator of wealth? How have the authorities tries to use salt to control the masses?

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