Work, Life and Leisure (Class X)

This is the correct answer. The temperance movement was developed to fight against the evils of drinking.

This is the correct answer. Charles Booth was a Liverpool ship-owner, who conducted the first social survey of low-skilled London workers in the East End of London.

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This is the correct answer. In Dombey and Son (1848), Charles Dickens wrote about the massive destruction in the process of construction.

This is the correct answer. Andrew Mearns was a clergyman who wrote 'The Bitter Cry of Outcast London' in the 1880s, which showed why crime was more profitable than labouring in small, underpaid factories.

This is the correct answer. Chartism was a movement in the nineteenth century and it was for demanding the vote for all adult males.

This is the correct answer. Blackpool was a seaside town and became a great tourist attraction during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century as British industrial workers were encouraged to spend their holidays by the sea, so as to derive the benefits of the sun and bracing winds.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. The first section of the Underground in the world opened on 10th January, 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London.

This is correct as opera and theatre were the cultural activities that the elite undertook during the London season.

This is the correct answer. The riot of the London poor on a Sunday in November 1887 was caused as the poor were demanding relief from the terrible conditions of poverty. The police brutally suppressed it and it came to be known as the Bloody Sunday of November 1887.

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. Bombay was a group of seven islands.

This is the correct answer. Surat was the main western port of the British East India Company till they shifted base to Bombay after control was passed into British hands upon the marriage of the Portuguese princess to Charles II.

This is the correct answer. Rent Act was passed in 1918, to keep rents reasonable. But it had the opposite effect of producing a severe housing crisis, since landlords withdrew houses from the market.

This is the correct answer as Bombay governor William Hornby approved the building of the great sea wall, which prevented the flooding of the low-lying areas of Bombay.

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This is the correct answer. Bombay was a group of seven islands and marshy or submerged lands between these islands were reclaimed by levelling the hills around Bombay.

This is the correct answer as Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar shot a scene of a wrestling match in Bombay’s Hanging Gardens, in 1896, which became India’s first movie.

This is the correct answer. Calcutta was the first Indian city to get smoke nuisance legislation in 1863.

This is the correct answer. Derby, Leeds and Manchester had laws to control smoke in the city by 1840s.

This is the correct answer as Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew and became totally altered after a major planning and development project.