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Industrialization and the growth of democracy - class-VIII

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Which of the following statements are true regarding the various phases of industrialization in Britain?
$A$. Before industrialization there was no large scale industrial production in England.
$B$. The first product to be industrialized in Britain was cotton.
$C$. The new technology inventions were gladly acceptable for common people.
$D$. In British, usage of handmade products was a symbol of aristocracy.

  1. $A$ and $D$

  2. $A$ and $B$

  3. $B$ and $D$

  4. $B$ and $C$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Following statements are true regarding the various phases of industrialization in Britain:-

  • Before industrialization there was no large scale industrial production in England.
  • The British industry was transformed by two crucial changes: the mechanization of work and the application of the vapor of the new machine
  • In British, usage of handmade products was a symbol of aristocracy.

Which of the following statements regarding steam engine are true?
$(A)$ James Watt's discovery of Steam engine got patent.
$(B)$ The usage of steam engine was very widespread in steel industry.
$(C)$ The steam engine enhanced the industrial productivity manifold.
$(D)$ Before James Watt, Newcomen invented the primitive form of steam engine.

  1. $A,B,C$

  2. $A,C,D$

  3. $B,C,D$

  4. $A,B,D$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Following statements regarding steam engine are true:-

  • Before James Watt, Newcomen invented the primitive form of steam engine which were pumping water from mines all over the country.
  • James Watt's discovery of steam engine got patent in 1764.
  • The new steam engine enhanced the industrial productivity manifold.

Which of the following developments did not form the basis of rise of nationalism in Europe till 18th century?

  1. Industrial Revolution

  2. Renaissance

  3. Reformation

  4. Rise of strong Dynasties


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Industrial Revolution did not form the basis of rise of nationalism in Europe till 18th century. The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French revolution in 1789. French was a full fledged territorial state in 1789 under the rule of an absolute monarchy. The political and constitutional changes that came in the wake of the French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy to a body of French citizens.

Who invented the  printing press ?

  1. Martin luther

  2. Raja Rammohan Roy

  3. Johann Gutenberg

  4. George Eliot


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. A  printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

In which revolution we see the clear expression of Nationalism?

  1. French revolution 1789

  2. England revolution 1889

  3. Germany revolution 1831

  4. Italy revolution 1791


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789. French was a full Fledged territorial state in 1789 under the rule of an absolute monarch. The political and constitutional changes that came in the wake of the French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy to a body of French citizens.

Which of the following is not a correct match?

  1. Prince Metternich -A French ruler

  2. Mazzini-Considered as a prophet

  3. Count Cavour-A statesman

  4. Garibaldi-A brave soldier and patriot


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Prince Metternich  was a German diplomat and statesman and one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Austrian Empire's Foreign Minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal revolution of 1848 forced his resignation.

Which European country colonised Vietnam?

  1. Germany

  2. England

  3. France

  4. Italy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The French colonized Vietnam in the mid 1800s. In 1885, France looked to take over Vietnam and in 1887 they did it. The French started to integrate more Western ideals, education, and religion including, for the first time, introducing Christianity.

Fredric William IV was the king of _________.

  1. Austria

  2. England

  3. Germany

  4. Prussia


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Frederick William IV was the king of Prussia from 1840 until 1861. He was the eldest son of Frederich William III. His conservative policies helped spark the Revolution of 1848. In 1857 he was incapacitated by a stroke, and his brother, the future William I, became regent.

Name two countries where print technology was developed first ?

  1. India and Pakistan

  2. China and Japan

  3. India and China

  4. Japan and India


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The earliest printing technology was developed in China and Japan. Books in China were printed by rubbing paper. Printing in East Asia evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tables in China during the Han dynasty.

The Declaration of American Independence was drafted by ______.

  1. George Washington

  2. George Masons

  3. Thomas Jefferson

  4. John Locke


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The 'Committee of Five' appointed to draft a declaration consisted of: $Thomas$ $Jefferson$ of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and John Adams of Massachusetts. The declaration of Independence was signed on 4th July 1776. 

The Congress of Vienna was held in 1815 after ______. 

  1. the fall of Constantinople

  2. the victory of Waterloo

  3. the French Revolution

  4. the Frankfurt Uprising


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), who conquered much of continental Europe in the early 19th century.

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Louis XVI of the Bourbon dynasty was married to the Austrian princess ________.

  1. Cleopatra 

  2. Sarraounia

  3. Isabella

  4. Marie Antoinette

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Louis XVI of the Bourbon dynasty was married to the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette on 16 May 1770.

The country where the process of industrial revolution started first of all in Europe was _______.

  1. France

  2. England

  3. Germany

  4. Italy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The country where the process of industrial revolution started first of all in Europe was England. The industrial revolution was a period when new sources of energy, such as coal and steam, were used to power new machines designed to reduce human labor and increase production.

The newly elected assembly abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic on 21st September _________.

  1. 1792

  2. 1794

  3. 1798

  4. 1892


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In 1792 election the new assembly was elected, which was called the Convention. In this election first time all men above the age of 21 got the right to vote in the regard of wealth. On 21 September 1792 monarchy was abolished and France was declared a republic. Later king Louis XVI and the queen Marie Antoinette were sentenced to death. They were executed publicly at the Place de la Concorde.

Name the Italian explorer who went to China in 1295?

  1. Charts Loyal

  2. Marco Polo

  3. William Caxton

  4. Johann Bour


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Marco Polo was a great explorer from Italy. He returned from China in 1295 and brought the knowledge of woodblock printing along with him. Thus, printing began in Italy and traveled to other parts of Europe.

USA consists of _______ States.

  1. 30

  2. 50

  3. 20

  4. 40


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The United States of America is a country in North America. It is made up of 50 States, a federal district and five territories. It has great influence over world finance, trade, culture, military, politics and technology.

Richard Arkwright invented:

  1. steam engine

  2. spinning jenny

  3. water frame

  4. paper mill


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The water frame is the name given to a water-powered spinning frame which was an easy way to create cotton thread. The first time the machine was used in 1768. It was able to spin 128 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before. It was developed by Richard Arkwright, who patented the technology in 1767.

The Congress of Vienna was attended by the representatives of _______.

  1. Britain, France, Russia and Austria

  2. Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia

  3. Russia, Prussia, Austria and Italy

  4. Italy, Germany, Britain and Russia


Correct Option: B

What was the goal of the Chinese self strengthening movement started by Prince Gong in the late nineteenth century?

  1. To fight corruption in the bureaucracy by enforcing a strict version of Neoconfucian ethics.

  2. The Expulsion of foreigners from China by military force, which was rebuilt with increased taxes on the landowning class.

  3. The adoption of Western technology and governmental systems to prevent further outside domination of China.

  4. To unite the nations of East Asia, Japan especially, with china in order to better oppose European and American exploitation of Asia.


Correct Option: C

"The mode of production of material life conditions:, the social, political, and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."
By which of the follow revolutions the philosophy that this quote promotes was instigated most strongly?

  1. Protestant Revolution

  2. Scientific Revolution

  3. Glorious Revolution

  4. Copernican Revolution

  5. Industrial Revolution


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

"The mode of production of material life conditions:, the social, political, and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." The above quote promotes was instigated most strongly by Industrial Revolution.

Which of these BEST describes how American crops impacted Europe in the 16th to 18th century period?

  1. American crops introduced plantation agricultures based on slave labor to Europe for the first time in its history

  2. American crops brought disease to European crops and Europe suffered a serve decline in agricultural productivity

  3. European merchant companies traded American crops as commodities around the world but not in Europe itself

  4. European crops were summarily rejected and replaced by American ones

  5. Europe's population grew significantly due to the introduction of crops such as corn and potatoes


Correct Option: A

The types of taxes were paid by both ancient Egyptians and pre-Revolutionary French was ___________________.

  1. Taxes on the use of salt

  2. Taxes on use of roads and waterways

  3. Taxes in the form of forced labor

  4. Taxes on foreign trade goods

  5. Taxes in the form of money


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The types of taxes were paid by both ancient Egyptians and pre-Revolutionary French was taxes in the form of forced labor.

I found myself...with high expectations and a certain belief that whatever perplexities and discouragement concerning the life of the poor were in store for me, I should at least know something at first hand and have the solace of daily activity...I had at last finished with the ever-lasting "preparation for life", however ill-prepared I might be.
The writer of this quote, Jane Addams, was associated with the ____________.

  1. Antitrust legislation that broke up the Northern Securities Company

  2. Municipal reforms of city government

  3. Legislation that helped establish laws against child labor

  4. Hull House in Chicago

  5. The Henry Street Settlement in New York


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Jane Addams was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Price for her work in the field of public administration, settlement, local public care and world peace. In 1889 Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr co-founded settlement house known as the Hull House.

Sigmund Freud published several books in the early 1900s that defined his theory of ____________________.

  1. Classical conditioning

  2. Psychoanalysis

  3. Sychosocial development

  4. Behaviorism

  5. Cognitive development


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis focused on the importance of the unconscious mind that governs the human behavior more than we suspect.

Which of these artistic styles would have been on display at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris?

  1. Realism

  2. Art Nouvaeu

  3. Romanticism

  4. Abstract Expressionism

  5. Pop Art


Correct Option: A

Which of these leaders were NOT part of the Mexican Revolution which began in 1910?

  1. Francisco Madero

  2. Porfirio Diaz

  3. Emiliano Zapata

  4. Pancho Villa

  5. Jose Morelos


Correct Option: A

Which of the following was NOT an advance in technology and invention in the opening years of the 20th century prior to World War I?

  1. Motored and manned flight

  2. The radio receiver

  3. The Model T

  4. The telephone

  5. The popularization of motion pictures


Correct Option: A

As to be firm land, we are certainly satisfied, and assur'd, that the Spaniards by their barbarous and execrable Action have absolutely Ten Kingdoms... which now lye waste and desolate and are absolutely ruined When as formerly no other Country whatsoever was more populous. Nay we dare boldly affirm, that during the Forty years space wherein they exercised their sanguinary and detestable Tyranny in these Region above Twelve Millions (computing Men, Women and Children) have undeservedly perished:nor do I conceive that I should deviate from the Truth by saying that above Fifty Millions in all paid their last Debt to Nature 
Those that arrived at these Islands from the remotest parts of Spain, and who pride themselves in the Names of Christians, steer'd Two course principally, in order to the Extirpation, and Exterminating of this People from the face of the Earth 


This passage was likely written by______________________.

  1. Christopher Columbus

  2. Bartolome de las Casas

  3. Ignatius of Loyola

  4. Matteo Ricci

  5. Roberto di Nobili


Correct Option: A

The Vichy government in France ________________________.

  1. was a center of widespread rebellion during the World War II period

  2. was the government in exile during the World War II period

  3. continued to use Paris as its capital

  4. was central to Allied plans to retake Western Europe

  5. complied with Nazi policy in France


Correct Option: A

Which country led the way in the Industrial Revolution?

  1. The United States

  2. Germany

  3. England

  4. Japan

  5. Russia


Correct Option: A

After the "British Miracle" other areas that experienced industrialization by 1900 included all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Austria-Hungary

  2. Russia

  3. Germany

  4. Japan

  5. United State


Correct Option: A

After the "British Miracle", other areas that experienced industrialization by 1900 included all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Austria-Hungry

  2. Russia

  3. Germany

  4. Japan

  5. United States


Correct Option: A

Which of these BEST describes one of the most influential philosophers Voltaire? 

  1. He proposed that the best governments had separation of and checks on their powers to limit them

  2. He supports the concepts that the general will or desires of the majority, should determine government actions

  3. He argued for equal access to education for both men and women

  4. He compiled works by the leading scholars of the time into the Encyclopedia

  5. He used satire and wit to denounce prejudice, superstition and religious intolerance


Correct Option: A

Women were involved in bettering industrial societies by 1900 in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

  1. Founding settlement houses and community centers to serve urban working population

  2. Achieving the right to vote to better their working conditions and achieve equal pay

  3. Joining the abolitionist cause to encourage the end of slavery

  4. Leading increasingly radical suffrage campaigns

  5. Organizing groups such as the First International Congress for Women's Rights


Correct Option: A

All contributed to the defeat of Napoleon except:

  1. The Battle of Austerlitz with Austria

  2. The failure of the Continental System

  3. The invasion of Russia in 1812

  4. The Spanish Resistance and its guerilla warfare

  5. The formation of the Quadruple Alliance


Correct Option: A

New industrial urban centers were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Rapid population growth doubled and sometimes tripled or quadrupled the size of cities in one century

  2. Tenement housing usually was the only option for the working class

  3. Lack of sanitation was a major problem leading to problem such as the rapid spread of cholera

  4. Cities lacked adequate access to education and police protection

  5. Life spans for those working in cities were longer than those enjoyed by rural farm laborers


Correct Option: A

Which of these BEST describes the Industrial Revolution?

  1. Transition from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by machine manufacture

  2. Focusing on machine manufacture at the expense of agriculture

  3. A political movement that stressed urban renewal and rights for factory workers

  4. Transition from relying on natural resources to only manufactures ones

  5. The overthrow of conservative governments throughout Europe for not favoring industry over agriculture


Correct Option: A

If virtue be the spring of a popular government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror. Virtue without which terror is destructive terror without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. It is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

 
This passage was likely written by ____________________.

  1. Abbe Sieyes

  2. Jean-Paul Marat

  3. Georges Danton

  4. Maximilian Robespierre

  5. Edmund Burke


Correct Option: A

The Agricultural Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

  1. Less people was tied to agriculture due to the enclosure movement

  2. More people were moving to cities looking for work

  3. New techniques and inventions led to a greater output of food supply and therefore larger population

  4. Crops from the Americas failed in European climates, making Europeans seek ways to improve agriculture

  5. Failing food prices allowed for more spending on consumer goods


Correct Option: A

Satya Shodhak Samaj was founded by ______.

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Swami Vivekanand

  4. Jyotiba Phule


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

He founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 with the aim of securing social justice for the weaker sections of society. He pioneered the widow remarriage movement in Maharashtra and worked for the education of women.

When did women in England start agitating for democratic rights?

  1. 1820s

  2. 1830s

  3. 1840s

  4. 1850s


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Over the nineteenth century, ideas changed. By the 1830s, women in England began agitating for democratic rights. They started a suffrage movement. Suffrage movement was a movement wherein women demanded the right to vote.

Taille was a/an _____.

  1. Indirect tax

  2. Direct tax

  3. Agricultural produce

  4. Situation of extreme poverty


Correct Option: B

Consider the statement given below and select the correct explanation from the responses given thereafter: people of depressed classes found it difficult to find housing in Bombay during the late nineteenth century.

  1. Bombay had a mere $9.5$ square yards average space per person

  2. Wages of depressed classes were usually less than that of others

  3. Most people of depressed classes were kept out of chawls

  4. People belonging to the depressed classes had fixed space allotted per family


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

People of depressed classes found it difficult to find housing in Bombay during the late nineteenth century. This is because depressed classes were kept out of chawls which is a large building divided into many separate tenements, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourers

The pioneer of the reform movements in India was ___________.

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Keshab Chandra Sen

  4. Debendranath Tagore


Correct Option: A

Har Bilas Sarda was instrumental in the passage of the famous Sarda Act of $1930$, which provided for ___________.

  1. Enforcing monogamy

  2. Removal of restrictions on intercaste marriages

  3. Penalisation of parties to a marriage in which the girl was below $14$ or the boy was below $18$ years of age

  4. Civil marriages


Correct Option: C

Which of the following statement is inconsistent with Industrial Revolution?

  1. Britain began mass production of cotton textile

  2. British textile was exported to India

  3. Condition of the Indian women changed

  4. Cotton clothes became more accessible to wider section of people in Europe


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There was no change in the condition of the Indian women at the time of Industrial Revolution. India came under the East India Company at the time of the start of the Industrial Revolution. There was some technological progress such as the introduction of railway, canals, modern banks and postal system.

This social reformer most ardently worked for the removal of untouchability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene:

  1. M G Ranade

  2. Jyotiba Phule

  3. Dayanand Saraswati

  4. Atmaram Panduranga


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jyotiba' Govindrao Phule was a prominent social reformer and thinker of the nineteenth century India. He revolted against the domination of the Brahmins and struggled for the rights of peasants and other low-caste people. He ardently worked for the removal of untouchability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene.

Which of the following best explains the condition of the average American worker during the 1920 s?

  1. Recent legislation provided safer working conditions and a federally-mandated minimum wage law.

  2. Steadily climbing wages through the decade enabled most workers to easily afford both a home and an automobile.

  3. The postwar recession lingered through the decade. negatively affecting a worker's standard of living.

  4. The Federal government's favorable view of organized labor provided a higher standard of living than experienced in previous decades.

  5. Despite a higher standard of living. wages rose very slowly during the decade.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Recent legislation provided safer working conditions and a federally-mandated minimum wage law best explains the condition of the average American worker during the 1920s.

The following passage deals with absolutist principles  

And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective letters and electrons, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberates declare:
  • That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal:
  • That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal...
  • That it is right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;
  • That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament is against law.
    This passage is likely from

  1. The Petition of Right

  2. The English Bill of Rights

  3. The Magna Carta

  4. The Act of Supremacy

  5. The Habeas Corpus Act


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This passage is likely from the Petition of Right. It is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It was written  by Parliament as an objection to an overreach of authority by King Charles I. During his reign, English citizens saw this overreach of authority as a major infringement on their civil rights.

Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct response from the options given thereafter:

List-I List-II
I. Liberals a. Government to be based on the majority of country's population
II. Radicals b. The past has to be respected and change has to be brought about through a slow process
III. Conservatives c. Property to be controlled by society as a whole
IV. Socialists d. Men of property mainly should have the right to vote
  1. I-c, II-b, III-a, IV-d

  2. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c

  3. I-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d

  4. I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • Liberals were the people who opposed uncontrollable power of dynastic rulers. However, they were not democrats. They felt men of property mainly should have the right to vote.
  • Radicals were the people who wanted a nation in which government was based on the majority of a country’s population.
  • Conservative people believed that the past had to be respected and change had to be brought about through a slow process.
  • Socialists believed that property should be controlled by society as a whole.

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