NCERT Solution: Peasants and Farmers
1. She could no longer collect fuel wood for fire and barriers and fruits for her children to eat.
2. It became difficult for her to graze her sheep, goats and cows and supplement her income and food requirements.
3. The life became worst than a hell for her and her family.
1. An open field system held great attraction for the labourer. He could meet almost all his needs from such open fields.
2. But when most of this open area came under the control of rich farmers who enclosed it for their personal use.
3. Labourers were derived of all the benefits which he was drawing before
1. The expansion of wheat agriculture and overgrazing of the prairies were responsible for the dust bowl tragedy.
2. It was natural as well as man- made as he farmers recklessly uprooted all vegetations.
3. Tractors turn the soil over, and broken the sod into dust.
4. In 1930, terrific dust storms began to blow over southern plains which affected economic and social life of people.
5. The black blizzards were responsible for natural disaster where people were blinded, cattle suffocated to death.
1. The English East India Company was buying tea and silk from china for sale in England. The Tea trade becomes more and more important. But England at this time produced nothing that could be easily sold in China.
2. Britishers could finance the tea trade only by paying in silver coins or bullion. This would impoverish the nation and deplete is wealth.
3. To stop this loss of silver they wanted trade opium in China.
4. As China became a country of opium addicts, British trade in tea flourished. The return from opium sale financed the purchase in china.
5. Export of opium from India to China proved cheaper for Britishers.