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 was Chinese Emperor’s order about the use of opium in China? (1) The British were allowed to sell opium in China (2) The Chinese Emperor told his people to cultivate more and more opium (3) The Emperor had forbidden its production and sale except for medicinal purposes (4) None of the above

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 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

5 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

6 PEASANTS AND FARMERS Name the US President who said “Plant more wheat, wheat will win the war.” (1) President Roosevelt (2) President Clinton (3) President Bush (4) President Wilson

7 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)

8 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

9 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

10 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