Violent Mass Protests

Q.

What is industrial productivity? Explain factors affecting industrial productivity.

Q. was the staple food of the poor people in England.

1. Bread
2. Rice
3. Wheat

Q. Who was exploited as a result of industrialisation?

1. Capitalists
2. Industrialists
3. Workers
4. Factory-owners

Q. Which of the following were the demands of the working class who protested during the Industrial Revolution?

1. Equality
2. Liberty
3. Voting rights
4. Minimum wages

Q. Select the factors that forced the working class to demand their rights through protests and agitations.

1. Increase in inflation and unemployment
2. Suppression of people's freedom
3. Denial of the right to vote
4. Deterioration in the living and working conditions

Q. The use of machines and modern technology in factories made manual labour inefficient and resulted in unemployment and poverty in society.

1. True
2. False

Q. From the following, pick the two new groups that were formed as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

1. Capitalists
2. Workers
3. Agriculturists
4. Intellectuals

Q. In which year did the British Parliament pass legislations that curtailed people's freedom and their right to organise themselves to protest against the government?

1. 1880
2. 1800
3. 1795
4. 1705

Q. Which of the following factors led to the outbreak of violent riots that engulfed England during the Industrial Revolution?

1. Increase in food prices to unsustainable levels
2. Use of machines and modern technology in factories
3. Acceptance of legal minimum wages by the British parliament
4. Merging of small farms with large farmlands of rich landowners

Q. Who was exploited as a result of industrialisation?

1. Workers
2. Capitalists
3. Factory-owners
4. Industrialists

Q. Which of the following were the demands of the working class who protested during the Industrial Revolution?

1. Equality
2. Liberty
3. Voting rights
4. Minimum wages

Q. Select the factor that did not contribute to organised mass protests of the working class during the Industrial Revolution in England.

1. Increase in unemployment and inflation
2. Curtailing of people's freedom by the British Parliament
3. Denial of right to vote by the British Parliament
4. Increase in wages and other subsidiary benefits

Q. Select the factors that forced the working class to demand their rights through protests and agitations.

1. Increase in inflation and unemployment
2. Suppression of people's freedom
3. Denial of the right to vote
4. Deterioration in the living and working conditions

Q. From the following, pick the two new groups that were formed as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

1. Capitalists
2. Workers
3. Agriculturists
4. Intellectuals