CBSE - Peasants and Farmers

1 PEASANTS AND FARMERS How much land did the wheat barons possess at this time in the USA? (1) 1000-2000 acres of land (2) 2000-3000 acres of land (3) 3000-4000 acres of land (4) 4000-5000 acres of land

2 PEASANTS AND FARMERS why did the white settlers want to push away the Indian Americans from their lands? (1) The land possessed by the Indians could be turned into cultivated fields (2) Forest timber could be exported, animals hunted for skins, mountains mined for gold and Minerals (3) Both (1) and (2) (4) It was a committed policy of the US Government

3 PEASANTS AND FARMERS What did the settlers of the Great Plains realise after the 1930s? (1) Using older methods of cultivation were better than modern machines (2) Competition with other countries was not healthy (3) They had to respect the ecological conditions of each region (4) None of the above

4 PEASANTS AND FARMERS The Manchus were (1) Chinese rulers (2) Roman rulers (3) Indian rulers (4) Portuguese rulers

5 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Opium was exported from India to: (1) China (2) Rome (3) U.K. (4) Portugal

6 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Which of these reasons led to a radical transformation of the landscape by the early 20th century? (1) White Americans had moved westward (2) Local tribes were displaced (3) Entire landscape was carved into different agricultural belts in the USA (4) All the above

7 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Which one of these is not the correct option for the cause of the Great Agrarian Depression in the USA? (1) Production had declined rapidly (2) Storehouses overflowed with grain (3) Vast amount of corn and wheat were turned into animal feed (4) Wheat prices fell and export markets collapsed

8 PEASANTS AND FARMERS In 1839, who was sent by the Emperor to Canton as a Special Commissioner to stop the opium trade? (1) I-tsing (2) Lin Ze-xu (3) Lao-Tsu (4) None of the above

9 PEASANTS AND FARMERS What was the result of the ‘Opium War’ (1837-42)? (1) China was forced to accept the humiliating terms of the subsequent treaties signed (2) It had to legalise the opium trade (3) It had to open up China to foreign merchants (4) All the above

10 PEASANTS AND FARMERS In 1831, Cyrus McCormick invented the first mechanical reaper. What was its most Important advantage? (1) In could harvest 50 acres of wheat (2) 500 acres of wheat could be harvested in two weeks (3) It could cut grass on large areas (4) It could prepare the ground for cultivation