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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 does Chapter 25 talk about the connection between?

2. What is the name of the island the Louisiana salt works owners bought?

3. What is the name of the world's most common salt producer?

4. Which of the following countries did not go to America to find salt?

5. Which county colonized India for hundreds of years?

Short Essay Questions

1. While were the colonies of Massachusetts and Virgina so reliant on Britain?

2. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

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

4. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

6. How did the Americans try to combat the British blockade?

7. How did the American War of Independence begin?

8. In what areas dishes does the heavy use of salt still survive?

9. How did a man called Appert destroy the salt industry?

10. Why did another war breakout between America and Britain in 1812?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Basque culture like before they discovered how important salt was? How did salt change the Basque way of life?

Essay Topic 2

Why is salt essential to our diet? What problems can too much salt in our diets cause?

Essay Topic 3

Why did cod become such an important source of food? How did the discovery of cod by the Europeans effect European industry?

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