One of the first crisis or devastation that occurred in the chapter was the fact that sugar had destroyed the Northeast and how everything was altered because of it. It later began talking about how the cost in food had spiked up and many families were having a hard time making money to support the family that parents began to sell their kid into prostitution to make so money. A big devastation mentioned in the chapter was how due to all the production going on many of the lands and soil of the lands were ruined making it very difficult for these countries to even produce anything. Also, began to talk about tobacco production and how that started to decrease and how prices on everything began to increase. It also mentioned how the once beautiful land of Cuba was ruined because of sugarcane. The chapter then went on to discuss how basically everything went wrong with sugar production and the cost of it decreasing and with sugarmills and banks going bankrupt. It ended up talking about how the best thing that could have happened to producing countries were natural
One of the first crisis or devastation that occurred in the chapter was the fact that sugar had destroyed the Northeast and how everything was altered because of it. It later began talking about how the cost in food had spiked up and many families were having a hard time making money to support the family that parents began to sell their kid into prostitution to make so money. A big devastation mentioned in the chapter was how due to all the production going on many of the lands and soil of the lands were ruined making it very difficult for these countries to even produce anything. Also, began to talk about tobacco production and how that started to decrease and how prices on everything began to increase. It also mentioned how the once beautiful land of Cuba was ruined because of sugarcane. The chapter then went on to discuss how basically everything went wrong with sugar production and the cost of it decreasing and with sugarmills and banks going bankrupt. It ended up talking about how the best thing that could have happened to producing countries were natural