AP 10th Class Social History Bits 4th Lesson The Age of Industrialisation
Select and write the most appropriate option :
Question 1.
What is ‘Dawn of the Century’?
A) A picture on the cover page
B) Beginning of a century
C) Beginning of a period
D) A music book published by John Paul
Answer:
A) A picture on the cover page
Question 2.
The cover page of the trade magazine shows
A) A woman
B) Two women
C) Two women
D) Two magicians
Answer:
D) Two magicians
Question 3.
Where did the merchant clothier in England buy the wool from?
A) A fuller
B) A wool dyer
C) A wool stapler
D) A factory
Answer:
C) A wool stapler
Question 4.
When did the earlier factories come up?
A) By the 1760s
B) In 1787
C) By the 1730
D) In 1790
Answer:
C) By the 1730
Question 5.
The most dynamic industries in Britain were
A) Jute and Cotton
B) Cotton and Steel
C) Jute and Steel
D) Tea and coffee plantations
Answer:
B) Cotton and Steel
Question 6.
Who improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen?
A) John Watt
B) James White
C) John Andrew
D) James Watt
Answer:
D) James Watt
Question 7.
How many types of hammers were produced in Britain?
A) 500
B) 400
C) 45
D) 600
Answer:
A) 500
Question 8.
Who described the job seekers going to London in search of work?
A) John Thorne
B) Newcomen
C) T.E.Nicholson
D) Will Thorne
Answer:
D) Will Thorne
Question 9.
Who preferred handmade things in Victorian Britain
A) Industrialists
B) Weavers
C) Upper class
D) Middle class
Answer:
C) Upper class
Question 10.
When did the magistrate report the incident of the Attack of a manufacturer’s property?
A) In 1780
B) In 1760
C) In 1750
D) In 1790
Answer:
D) In 1790
Question 11.
When did the number of workers employed in the transport industry double?
A) In the 1840s
B) In the 1850s
C) In the 1870s
D) In the 1890s
Answer:
A) In the 1840s
Question 12.
Where did the finer varieties of cotton come from before the age of machine industries?
A) China
B) India
C) The US
D) Egypt
Answer:
B) India
Question 13.
Who competed the East India Company in the market to secure woven cloth?
A) India and China
B) Fench, Dutch, Portuguese and Indian traders
C) French and Dutch traders
D) Portuguese and Dutch traders
Answer:
C) French and Dutch traders
Question 14.
Who pressurised the British Government to impose duties on cotton textiles?
A) Weavers in India
B) Merchants in India
C) Industrial groups in England
D) Workers in India
Answer:
C) Industrial groups in England
Question 15.
Where did the Civil War break out?
A) America
B) England
C) India
D) France
Answer:
A) America
16. Who were barred from trading with Europe in manufactured goods?
A) Indian merchants
B) American merchants
C) Dutch merchants
D) Portuguese merchants
Answer:
A) Indian merchants
17. In 1901, there were workers in Indian factories.
A)’584,000
B) 484,000
C) 2,436,000
D) 436,000
Answer:
A)’584,000
18. Who became a person with authority and power?
A) The jobber
B) The Indian industrialist
C) The British industrialist
D) The British merchant
Answer:
A) The jobber
19. Whose life and labour was integral to the process of industrialisation?
A) Jobbers
B) Gomasthas
C) Weavers and other crafts people
D) Merchants
Answer:
C) Weavers and other crafts people
20. What was needed to make the place of manufacture and the name of the company familiar to the buyer?
A) Label
B) Manchester
C) Indian gods
D) Emperors and Nawabs
Answer:
A) Label
Fill in the blanks:
1. The musi book was published In the year _________
Answer: 1900
2. A_________ appeared on the pages of a trade magazine.
Answer: picture
3. When we talk of _________ we refer to factory production.
Answer: industrial production
4. The yarn that was spun was taken to weavers __________ and then to dyers.
Answer: fuller
5. The cotton mill was created by _________
Answer: Richard Arkwright
6. In _________ factories increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.
Answer: the early nineteenth century
7. The machines often broke down and repair was _________
Answer: costly
8. When the ________ was Introduced In the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines.
Answer: spinning jenny
9. After the 1840s __________ intensified in the cities.
Answer: the building Activity
10. By the_________ this network, controlled by Indian merchants, was breaking down.
Answer: 1750s
11. The European counl:rles gradually gained power first securing a variety of concessIons from local courts, then the_______ to trade.
Answer: monopoly rigths
12. indian fine textiles were in __________ in Europe.
Answer: great demand
13. However once the __________ established political power, it could assert a monopoly right to trade.
Answer: East india Company
14. In many weaving villages, there were reports of clashes between the __________ and gomasthas.
Answer: Weavers
15. In __________ Henry Patullo, a company official, had ventured to say that the demand for Indian textiles could never reduce.
Answer: 1772
16. As raw cotton exports from India increased, the price of __________
Answer: raw cotton shot up
17. Elgin Mill was started in Kanpur in the__________
Answer: 1860s
18. Cotton piece-goods production in India __________ between 1900 and 1912
Answer: double
19. By the second decade of the twentieth century, we find weavers using looms with a __________
Answer: fly shuttle
20. When Indian manufacturers advertised __________ was clear and loud.
Answer: the nationalist message
Matching:
Question 1.
| Column-A | Column – B |
| i) Proto-industrialisation | a) usually referring to Asia |
| ii) Cotton mill | b) association of producers |
| iii) Orient | c) person who sorts wool according to fibre |
| iv) Fuller | d) large scale production not based on industries |
| v) Guilds | e) Richard Arkwright |
| vi) Stapler | f) person who gathers cloth by pleating |
Answer:
| Column-A | Column – B |
| i) Proto-industrialisation | d) large scale production not based on industries |
| ii) Cotton mill | e) Richard Arkwright |
| iii) Orient | a) usually referring to Asia |
| iv) Fuller | f) person who gathers cloth by pleating |
| v) Guilds | b) association of producers |
| vi) Stapler | c) person who sorts wool according to fibre |
Question 2.
| Column – A | Column – B |
| i) Carding | a) rough, not soft |
| ii) Masulipatnam | b) on the coast of Gujarat |
| iii) Cdarse | c) a person who gathers cloth by pleating |
| iv) Surat | d) in the country |
| v) Swadeshi | e) process of preparation before spinning |
| vi) Fuller | f) in Andhra Pradesh |
Answer:
| Column – A | Column – B |
| i) Carding | e) process of preparation before spinning |
| ii) Masulipatnam | f) in Andhra Pradesh |
| iii) Cdarse | a) rough, not soft |
| iv) Surat | b) on the coast of Gujarat |
| v) Swadeshi | d) in the country |
| vi) Fuller | c) a person who gathers cloth by pleating |
True or False
1. E.T. Pauli produced amusic book. ( )
Answer: True
2. The picture has a goddess like figure at the centre. ( )
Answer: True
3. When we talk of industrial workers we mean factory workers ( )
Answer: True
4. In the towns poor peasants and artisans began working for merchants. ( )
Answer: False
5. By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about 77 million pounds, double the value of its cotton export.( )
Answer: True
6. The new industries could easily displace the traditional industries. ( )
Answer: False
7. Newcomen manufactured the new model steam engine. ( )
Answer: False
8. In Victorian Britain there was shortage of labour. ( )
Answer: False
9. Machines were oriented to producing uniforms and standardised goods for a massmarket. ( )
Answer: True
10. The abundance of labour in the market affected the lives of workers.( )
Answer: True
11. If you had a relative or a friend in a factory, you were more likely to get a job quickly. ( )
Answer: True
12. In the last years of the seventeenth century, the gross value of trade that passed through Surat had been Rs 10 million. ( )
Answer: False
13. Trade through the new ports came to be controlled by European companies and was carried in European ships. ( )
Answer: True
14. The East India Company appointed a paid servant called the gomastha. ( )
Answer: True
15. The weavers were not given loans to purchase the raw material for their production. ( )
Answer: False
16. Then, by the end of the nineteenth century, weavers and other crafts people were very happy. ( )
Answer: False
17. Seth Hukumchand, a Marwari businessman who set up the first India jute mill in Calcutta in 1917, also traded with China. ( )
Answer: True
18. Vasant Parkar was a millworker in Bombay. ( )
Answer: True
19. Bhai Bhosle was a trade unionist in Bombay. ( )
Answer: True
20. Like the images of gods, figures of important personages, of emperors and nawabs, adorned advertisement and calendars. ( )
Answer: True