MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science The Age of Industrialisation with Answers
1. Who set up the first Indian Jute Mill in Calcutta?
2. A fuller’s job is to
3. Which of the following countries faced labour shortage in the nineteenth century?
4. The ports of Surat and Hoogly decayed in the
5. The first cotton mill in India was established in
6. Dwarkanath Tagore was alan
7. Why did the weavers suffer from a problem of raw cotton?
8. In Victorian Britain the upper classes- aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred handmade goods because:
9. By late 19th century why did the British manufacturers print calendars for advertisements?
10. Which of the following innovations helped the weavers in increasing productivity and compete with mill sector?
11.What do you mean by ‘Gomastha’?
12. According to historians, who was the typical worker in the mid-nineteenth century?
13. What do you mean by Carding?
14. Who was the Staplers and Fullers?
15. What was the reason behind new merchants could not set up business in the towns in Europe?
16. Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf countries and the Red Sea ports?
17. The earliest factories in England came up by ___. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.
18. The first symbol of the new era was ____. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.
19. _____ created the cotton mill.
20. The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of ___.
21. Growing at a rapid pace, ____ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.
22. With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for __ and ___ increased rapidly.
23 By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its ____export.
24. Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many ___ sectors such as ___.
25. Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ____ of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.
26. James Watt patented the new engine in ___.
27. Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?
28. ____ products came to symbolise refinement and class.
29. ____ goods were for export to the colonies.
30. ___ and __ merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.
31. ____ on the Coromandel Coast and had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
32. ___ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.
33. Hoogly in ___ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
34. As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, __ and __ ports grew in India.
35. Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas.
36. Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from ___ dominated the international market in textiles.
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