CBSE - Peasants and Farmers

1 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

2 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

3 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Who was Captain Swing? (1) A farmer (2) A labourer (3) A mythical name (4) A landlord

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 PEASANTS AND FARMERS What did the enclosure imply? (1) It meant green fields (2) Piece of land enclosed from all sides (3) It meant open fields (4) Vast area of marshy land