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Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Maximilien Robespierre famously defended the Reign of Terror, arguing that virtue without terror is impotent and that terror is an emanation of virtue necessary to protect the French Republic.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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D Correct answer
Explanation

American crops did not fail in Europe; rather, they thrived and increased food supplies. The other choices correctly describe ways the Agricultural Revolution aided the Industrial Revolution.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Satya Shodhak Samaj was founded by ______.

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Swami Vivekanand

  4. Jyotiba Phule
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D Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

When did women in England start agitating for democratic rights?

  1. 1820s

  2. 1830s

  3. 1840s

  4. 1850s
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B Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

Taille was a/an _____.

  1. Indirect tax

  2. Direct tax

  3. Agricultural produce

  4. Situation of extreme poverty
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The taille was a direct land tax on the peasantry and non-nobles in pre-revolutionary France. It was a primary source of revenue for the French monarchy.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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C Correct answer
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

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

The pioneer of the reform movements in India was ___________.

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Keshab Chandra Sen

  4. Debendranath Tagore
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Raja Rammohan Roy is widely regarded as the father of the Indian Renaissance and the pioneer of modern social and religious reform movements in India.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Sarda Act, also known as the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 (passed in 1930), aimed to curb child marriage by setting minimum ages for marriage for girls and boys.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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C Correct answer
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.

Multiple choice history the industrial revolution industrialization and the growth of democracy china: two different phases industrial revolution industrial revolution and its effects

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
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B Correct answer
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.