Question:
What were Corn Laws ? Why were these Laws abolished ? [CBSE 2009 (F) Sept. 2010, 2014]
Answer:
The Corn Laws were British trade laws to regulate the export or import of corn.
(i) These laws were abolished :
(ii) Because restriction of imports lead to high food prices.
(iii) These laws restricted the free trade. Landlords, industrialists and urban dwellers were against these laws.
The Making of a Global World
Q 1.
What is difference between international momentary system and the Bretton Woods system?
Q 2.
The First World War was a war like no other before. Justify.
Q 3.
What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]
Q 4.
Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]
Q 5.
Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.
Q 6.
Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.
Q 7.
What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?
Q 8.
Which was the world's first mass produced car?
Q 9.
What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?
Q 10.
Who was indentured labourer ?
Q 11.
Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain.
Or
How did the First World War change the economic life of the people in Britain ? Explain. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Or
Describe in brief the world economic conditions of the post First World War period. [CBSE 2010 (D), Sept. 2012, 2013]
Q 12.
Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]
Q 13.
Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.
Q 14.
Who discovered America ?
Q 15.
Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.
Q 16.
Mention the impact of the First World War on agricultural economies.
Q 17.
Name the technology which enabled the transportation of perishable foods over.
Q 19.
What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?
Q 20.
Give two examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability.
Q 21.
What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.
Q 22.
What were the main sources of attraction for Europeans to come to Africa in the late nineteenth century ? How did they exploit their resources ? [CBSE 2010 (F)]
Q 23.
India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Q 24.
Write any three factors responsible for indentured labour migration from India. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2013]
Q 25.
Why were European attracted to Africa in die late 19th century ? Give one reason.
Q 26.
Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]
Q 27.
Name the movement launched by Gandhiji during the Great Depression of 1929.
Q 28.
Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?
Q 29.
What were the limitations of IMF and the World Bank ? Mention any two.
Q 30.
Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the 17th century, choosing one example from Asia, and one from the America.
Q 31.
The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century.' Explain.
Q 32.
What was the impact of industrialisation in Britain on Indian economy ?
Q 33.
‘The First World War was modern industrial war’. Explain.
Or
Explain how the First World War was so horrible a war like none other before. [CBSE 2010 (0)]
Or
How far is it correct to say that "The First World Wax was the First modem industrial war”? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Q 34.
What was the impact of germs on the America's original inhabitants ?
Q 35.
How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Q 36.
What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?
Q 37.
Explain the three types of movements or flows within international economic exchange. Find one example of each type of flow which involved India and Indians, and write a short account of it.
Q 38.
What were the crucial influences that shaped post-war ( II World War) reconstruction?
Q 39.
Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Q 40.
What do you know about the Great Depression ? Explain the major factors responsible for the Great Depression. [CBSE 2008 (F), Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013]
Q 41.
What is globalisation ? [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012]
Q 42.
What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 43.
Define Rinderpest. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
Q 44.
Which two countries were among the world's richest until the 18th century ?
Q 45.
What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?
Q 46.
Name the disease which had terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and local economy of Africa during 1890's.
Q 47.
How rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880's ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 48.
What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?
Q 49.
How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?
Q 50.
What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?