CBSE - Peasants and Farmers

1 PEASANTS AND FARMERS what were the reasons of the dust storms? (1) Early 1930s were years of persistent drought (2) The wind blew with ferocious speed (3) The entire landscape had been ploughed over, stripped of all the grass that held ittogether. (4) All the above

2 PEASANTS AND FARMERS The continuous movement of the pastoral communities helps in (1) Recovery of the pastures (2) prevention of their overuse (3) Reduction in the demand of houses (4) both A and B

3 PEASANTS AND FARMERS The Great Agrarian Depression of the 1930s was caused by (1) overproduction of wheat (2) fall of wheat production (3) rise in the price of wheat (4) overproduction of rice

4 PEASANTS AND FARMERS In the 19th century, the two major commercial crops India came to produce for the world Market were (1) indigo (2) opium (3) maize (4) both (1) and (2)

5 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Why were the Confucian rulers of China, the Manchus, suspicious of all foreign Merchants? (1) The British were buying tea at very low rates (2) They feared that the British would interfere in local politics and disrupt their authority (3) China was self-sufficient and did not want to trade with any country (4) All the above

6 PEASANTS AND FARMERS which practice disappeared by 1800, drastically changing the lives of the labourers? (1) Till 1800, the labourers lived with landowners, ate with their masters and helped themthroughout the year doing various jobs (2) Now they were paid wages and employed only during harvest times (3) To increase their profits the landlords cut the amount they had to spend on their workers (4) All the above

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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