Question

Sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. People throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. We even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition met up with the Shoshone, who had little previous contact with Old World products, Sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. He loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." Sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty.

The text structure of this passage is

chronological order.
problem and solution.
cause and effect.
compare and contrast.

Answer 1

cause and effect.

The passage shows how sugar (the cause) produced wide-ranging effects — intense craving, spread worldwide, resulting in misery and destruction as well as inspiring ideas of liberty — illustrated by the Sacagawea anecdote.