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This document contains a 25 question worksheet about the Age of Industrialization from a history class. It includes multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about topics like proto-industrialization, inventions like the cotton mill and steam engine, authors, matching items to columns, dynamic industries in Britain, the role of jobbers, non-mechanical sectors, exports from India to Britain, effects of new machines on labor, and growth of ports in India. The worksheet is meant to be completed and contains questions testing students' understanding of the industrialization period.

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HISTORY Worksheet Hist ch.4

This document contains a 25 question worksheet about the Age of Industrialization from a history class. It includes multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about topics like proto-industrialization, inventions like the cotton mill and steam engine, authors, matching items to columns, dynamic industries in Britain, the role of jobbers, non-mechanical sectors, exports from India to Britain, effects of new machines on labor, and growth of ports in India. The worksheet is meant to be completed and contains questions testing students' understanding of the industrialization period.

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HISTORY WORKSHEET .

Ch.4 The Age of Industrialization

NAME:……………………………...

CLASS : ……. SEC: …..

ROLL NO. : ……..

Answer the following Questions : (ENCIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION)

Q1. What is proto-industrialisation?


A. Industry based on heavy factory production
B. first and early form of Industrialization
C. Industry based on modern technology
D. Rural Industry

Q2. .___________ created the cotton mill.

(a) Orville Wright

(b) Richard Arkwright

(c) James Watt

(d) None of the above

Q3. James Watt patented the new engine in _______.

(a) 1765

(b) 1581

(c) 1681

(d) 1781
Q4. .Who was the author of “Comers and Goers”?

(a) Michael Wolf

(b) Raphael Samuel

(c) Henry Cook

(d) None

Q5.Match the following items given in column A with those in column B.

Column A Column B

A. First cotton mill in Bombay 1. India

B. Masulipatam 2. Connected India to the Gulfand Red Sea Ports

C. Gujarat coast 3. Coromandel coast

D. Finer variety of coarser 4. 1854

cotton

Choose the correct option:


(a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

(b) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1

(c) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

(d) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

Q6. What did the most dynamic industries in Britain produce?

A.polyester and metals

B. jute and cotton

C. cotton and metals

D. furniture and food processing.

Q 7.What was the role of the jobber?

A. was a production manager

B a finance manager

C. employed by the business house to get new recruits

D. sales head

Q8. Which were the non mechanical sectors that were coming up?

A. building, pottery

B Food processing

C. food processing, building, pottery, glass work, tanning, furniture making

D. hand made goods such as embroidery

Q9. What did the Manchester label say?


A. Made in England
B Made in UK
C Made in Manchester
D Made in Europe

Q10. Which country was yarn mainly exported to?


A. Burma
B. Britain
C. China
D. Japan
Q11.Who improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781?
A. James Watt
B. Mathew Boulton
C. Richard Arkwright
D. Henry Patullo
Q12. What did the Indian merchants export to Britain after the colonial control over Indian trade
tightened ?
A. rice
B. jute
C. handicrafts
D. raw cotton, opium, wheat and indigo
Q13. What kinds of production demanded seasonal labour?
A. steel and iron
B. cotton and textiles
C. handmade goods
D. Gas works and breweries, in cold months; Bookbinders and printers before Christmas; Ship repairs
during winter
Q14. Why were handmade goods popular in England?
A. cheaper rates
B. fast production
C. demand in the market was often for goods with intricate designs and specific shapes specially by the
aristocrats and the bourgeoisie class
D. made at order was easier
Q15. Handmade products came to symbolise refinement and class because……………
A. They were better finished, individually produced, and carefully designed
B. Easily available labour.
C. made for the choice of individuals
D. not easily affordable
Q16. What was the possibility of getting a job with such abundance of labour in the cities?
A. jobs were given on the basis of merit and artistry of the jobseeker
B. a job depended on existing networks of friendship and kin relations in the factory
C. jobs were given, if you were registered with a particular factory
D. first come, first serve basis
Q17. What happened when the Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woolen industry?
A. The women welcomed it very well
B. it was not able to produce in competition to labour
C. women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines.
D. there was no conflict over the introduction of the jenny
Q.18.Name the first industrial country in the world:
(a) France
(b) Japan
(c) Britain
(d) Germany.
Q.19 The number of workers employed in the transport industry …………..in the 1840s.
A. Halved
B. Doubled
C. Lessened
D. Suffered unemployment
Q20. Before the age of the machine industry, where did the finer varieties of silk and cotton goods come
from?
A. Egypt
B. India
C. Persia
Q21. First cotton mill in Bombay came up in the year ………..and it went into production two years later?
A. 1850
B 1854
C 1852
D. 1851
Q22. In the year ………. the first spinning and weaving mill of Madras began production?
A. 1874
B. 1872
C. 1877
D. 1875
Q23. In the late 18th century which country did the upcoming indian Businessman gain maximum profit
from?
A. England.
B. Burma
C. China
D Ceylon

Q24. What made workers become hostile to the ‘Spinning Jenny’?


(a) Common people had not yet accepted machine-made products.
(b) To some people machines appeared as ‘monsters’.
(c) It had reduced the demand for labour.
(d) Hand-made goods were still popular.N
C
Q.25.As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, _____ and _____ ports grew in India.
a) Bombay and Calcutta

b) Madras and Bombay

c) Calcutta and Madras

d) Masulipatnam and Calcutta

x……x…….x……x…..x…x
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