History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century ?
Or
Why did thousands of people flee away from Europe to America in the 19th century ? Give any three reasons. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Answer:

(i) Until the 19th century, poverty and hunger were common in Europe.
(ii) Cities were crowded and deadly diseases were widespread.
(iii) Religious conflicts were common and religious dissenters were persecuted So people migrated from Europe to America.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

What steps were taken by the British government to improve agriculture in West Punjab ?

Q 2.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 3.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 4.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 5.

"Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange."Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2011]
Or
Assess with examples the contribution of food to the process of globalisation of the early periods. [CBSE 2012]

Q 6.

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 7.

What is mass production and mass consumption?

Q 8.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement ? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2011]

Q 9.

Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]

Q 10.

How did Henry Ford revolutionise mass production in the US ? Explain. [CBSE 2012]

Q 11.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]

Q 12.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 13.

Name the countries involved in the First World War.

Q 14.

How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]

Q 15.

Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.

Q 16.

Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?

Q 17.

Why were the Corn Laws scrapped ? Explain any three reasons.[CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, 2009 (F), Sept. 2011]

Q 18.

What are canal colonies' ?

Q 19.

In the. 19th century, all over the world more than 150 million people migrated from one country to another.’ Explain the factors responsible for this migration.

Q 20.

What were the main reasons for the attraction of Europeans to Africa ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]

Q 21.

Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each.

Q 22.

Name some of the important food items which travelled from far away places to India.

Q 23.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 24.

Till the 1870's meat was an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European poor”. Give reason.

Q 25.

Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]

Q 26.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 27.

Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]

Q 28.

What is G-77 ?

Q 29.

What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.

Q 30.

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 31.

Explain the impact of the Great Depression on the Indian economy. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]
Or
Explain the impact of the Great Depression on Indian farmers in the early twentieth century. [CBSE 2009 (F), Sept. 2012]

Q 32.

What were the factors which were responsible for the end of the Bretton Woods system ?

Q 33.

The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century.' Explain.

Q 34.

Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]

Q 35.

Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century ?
Or
Why did thousands of people flee away from Europe to America in the 19th century ? Give any three reasons. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 36.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy.” Explain by giving an example.
Or
What was the importance of the Indian trade for the Britishers ?
Or
How did India play a crucial role in the nineteenth century world economy ? Explain with examples. [CBSE Comp. (O) 2008]

Q 37.

What is globalisation ? [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012]

Q 38.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 39.

Who discovered America ?

Q 40.

Mention any two factors which were responsible for price rise of food grains in Britain in the late 18th century.

Q 41.

What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?

Q 42.

Name the technology which enabled the transportation of perishable foods over.

Q 43.

Name the disease which had terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and local economy of Africa during 1890's.

Q 44.

How rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880's ?      [CBSE 2014]

Q 45.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 46.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 47.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 48.

What was the main aim of the post-war international economic system in the world ?

Q 49.

What is difference between international momentary system and the Bretton Woods system?

Q 50.

Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.