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Which of the following statement is not correct in context of French Revolution?

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  1. Conservatives wanted to bring change through a slow process.

  2. Liberals were in favour of the uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers.

  3. Radicals supported women's suffrage movements.

  4. Liberals did not believe in universal adult franchise.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Liberals opposed the uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers. They wanted to safeguard the rights of individuals against governments. They argued for representative, elected parliamentary government and a well trained judiciary but they felt that the men of property should have the vote not every citizen.

What was the scythe used for before the mid-nineteenth century?

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  1. For sowing seeds

  2. For harvesting crop

  3. For cutting grass

  4. For cutting vegetables

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Correct Option: C

The overcrowded towns lacked ______ amenities.

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  1. Sanitary

  2. Parking

  3. Living

  4. Working

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The Industrial Revolution began in England in the late 1700’s. The Industrial Revolution was a time of new inventions, products, and methods of work. The results of the Industrial Revolution led to many short and long-term positive and negative effects. These results have been assessed from many viewpoints such as the factory workers, the factory owners, the government, and other people who observed the conditions in industrial cities. 
One negative effect of the Industrial Revolution was the poor working conditions in factories which were a big problem during the Industrial Revolution. Many people worked in factories, which had very tight spaces and poor lighting. 

Whom did the industrialists find more profitable to employ in their factories?
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  1. Men

  2. Women

  3. Children

  4. All the above

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Correct Option: B,C
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It was profitable to employ the women and children in the factories because they were paid almost one-tenth of what was given to men. Also, the resistance was negligible from them because they hardly became a part of strikes organised by the workers' union. They could be made to perform menial jobs repeatedly.

______ became one of the greatest social problems.

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  1. Mass unemployment

  2. Mass underemployment

  3. Mass employment

  4. Unemployment

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The most prominent social impact of the industrial revolution was mass underemployment. Underemployment is when a person lands in a job which doesn't use his actual skills. The expertise of  skilled workers like hand weavers became  obsolete owing to the extraordinary efficiency of textile  machines. This forced them to opt jobs which they were not familiar with. The challenging working conditions and undue payments worsened their living.

The emergence of big towns due to Industrial Revolution necessitated _______ reforms.

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  1. Social

  2. Educational

  3. Parliamentary

  4. Progressive

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The continuous fall in the living, health and working conditions due to the industrial revolution necessitated the parliamentary reforms. There were increasing demands for improved social welfare, education, labour rights, political rights and equality, as well as for the abolition of the slave trade and changes in the electoral system. 

Most of the coal mining centered around _______.

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    1. Scotland

    2. the Midlands

    3. the London region

    4. None of the above

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    Correct Option: B
    Explanation:

     Midlands of England consists of the East and West Midlands were the areas where most of the coal mining was centered. The region was instrumental in the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries in England for its large amount of natural resources.

    When did the earliest factories come up in England?

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    1. 1720s

    2. 1730s

    3. 1740s

    4. 1750s

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    Correct Option: B
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    The earliest factories in England came up during the 1730s and grew in number during the late eighteenth century. Cotton factories were the first factories to be set up and its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.

    Which one of the following factories was considered as a symbol of new era in England in the late eighteen century?

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    1. Metal

    2. Cotton

    3. Jute

    4. Iron and Steel

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    Correct Option: B
    Explanation:

    The British had always woven cloth out of wool and flax. From 17th century country, had been importing bales of cotton from India. Till early 18th century spinning was a very slow process. But a series of technological invention fill the gap between the speed in spinning raw cotton into yarn. From the 1780s, the cotton industries in Britain symbolised industrialisation in Britain. From now raw cotton had to be imported and finished cloth was exported.

    Search for colonies led to ______ imperialism.

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    1. Colonial

    2. Economic

    3. Political

    4. Socio-cultural

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    Correct Option: A
    Explanation:
    Exploitation colonialism is the national economic policy of conquering a country to exploit its population as labour and its natural resources as raw material. The practice of exploitation colonialism contrasts with settler colonialism, the policy of conquering a country to establish a branch of the metropole (motherland). A reason for which a country might practice exploitation colonialism is the immediate financial gain produced by the low-cost extraction of raw materials by means of a native people, usually administered by a colonial government.

    The geopolitics of an Imperialist power determine which of these colonial practices it will follow. In the example of the British Empire, colonists settled mainly in northern North America and in Australia, where the native populations declined due to disease and violence in the course of establishing a facsimile society of the metropole. Whereas the densely populated countries of the British Raj (1858–1947), in the Indian subcontinent, and the British occupation of Egypt and South Africa, as well as the island of Barbados, were ruled by a small populace of colonial administrators (colonial government) that redirected the local economies to exploitation management to supply the metropole with food, raw materials, and some finished goods.

    Exploitation was often reinforced by colonial European geographers who implemented theories such as environmental determinism, which suggested warmer climates produced less civilized people. These theories were among the scholarly canon that helped legitimize colonial activity and expansion into overseas territories.

    Geographers such as Friedrich Ratzel suggested that the survival of empire relied on its ability to expand its control and influence around the world.By implying a correlation between colonial expansion and national success, geographers were able to produce a sense of nationalism within many European nations. Their influence created a sense of pride that was able to reassure subjects that their nation’s activity abroad was beneficial to not only them, but that their presence was necessary within the territories being occupied.

    Barbados was claimed for the English in 1625 by Captain John Powell, and by the 1660s the English had come to regard Barbados as being by far and away their most highly prized possession anywhere in the New World.The island's value to England, and the enormous wealth of a minority of its English inhabitants, hinged on the relationship that had been forged during the previous twenty years between sugar and slavery.