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It explains how the practice shifted in the United States toward pranking by the early 1900s, prompting communities in the 1920s–40s to organize friendlier Halloween traditions. Wartime sugar rationing nearly stopped candy giving, then the custom surged after 1945, especially in 1950s suburbs.","Picture a chilly October night in a small English village more than 500 years ago, long before anyone owned a costume made of plastic. Children in ragged coats knock on doors, holding out cloth bags and singing for something called a soul cake. A soul cake was a small round biscuit, sweet with spices and marked with a cross on top, and it was handed out around All Hallows' season. This custom was known as \"souling,\"and it is one of the oldest roots of the tradition you now call trick-or-treating. Did you know a treat could once be earned with a song instead of a costume? It could.  \nSinging for cakes was only half of the old story, because in Scotland and Ireland  \npeople added a trick that had nothing to do with mischief. There, young people went \"guising,\" meaning they dressed in disguise and went door to door performing a poem, a joke, or a short song in exchange for food or coins. The disguise was the whole point: hidden behind soot, masks, or borrowed clothes, a neighbor could be anyone. Guisers had to earn their reward by doing something first, which is a rule that would follow the custom for centuries. So the deal was clear long ago, and it was simple: give me a treat, and I will give you a performance.  \nThat give-and-take idea sailed across the Atlantic when Irish and Scottish families moved to the United States in the 1800s. In America, though, the polite performances slowly faded, and by the early 1900s Halloween had turned into a night of serious pranking. Bored teenagers tipped over outhouses, soaped windows, unhinged gates, and even led cows up onto porches, and towns grew tired of the damage. Can you imagine a whole city cleaning up after one night of chaos? Cities certainly could not enjoy it. The mischief had gotten out of hand, and grown-ups began searching for a way to calm it down.  \nFixing that mess is exactly what led communities to invent a friendlier version of the holiday. In the 1920s and 1930s, towns and parents began organizing Halloween parties, parades, and games to give young people something fun to do besides causing trouble. The idea was a kind of bargain with the neighborhood's children: enjoy a treat, and skip the trick. Slowly the phrase \"trick or treat\" began appearing in newspapers and children's magazines during the 1930s and early 1940s. The words captured the old deal perfectly, promising a small threat but almost always ending in candy.  \nJust as the phrase was catching on, the whole country hit an unexpected roadblock called World War II. During the war, sugar was rationed, meaning families could only buy a limited amount, so candy became a rare luxury. With sweets so scarce, trick-or-treating nearly disappeared for a few Halloween nights in the early 1940s. When the war ended in 1945 and sugar flowed freely again, the custom came roaring back stronger than ever.  \nThat comeback exploded in the 1950s, when America's booming suburbs turned out to be perfect trickor-treating territory. Neighborhoods were packed with new houses standing close together, and families had more children and more spending money than before. Candy companies noticed the trend and began  \nadvertising bags of wrapped sweets made just for handing out at the door. Comic books, television shows, and cartoons featured the custom too, teaching every child exactly what to shout when a door opened. In only a few decades a quiet song for soul cakes had grown into a national holiday where, according to the National Retail Federation, Americans now spend billions of dollars on Halloween candy each year.  \nThe History of Trick-or-Treating  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What was a soul cake, according to the passage?\u003Cbr>A. A large frosted cake shared at a village feast\u003Cbr>B. A thin wafer stamped with a family's initials\u003Cbr>C. A hollow bread loaf filled with sweet fruit\u003Cbr>D. A small round spiced biscuit marked with a cross on top |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  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