AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION [LEVEL 1.1] [QUESTIONS]

AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION

1 BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION [QUESTIONS]

1. Explain any three effects of industrialization on agriculture in the 18th century.

2. What is ‘proto-industrialization’? Write the most dynamic industries in Britain in the first phase of industrialization.

3. What were the crafts and trade guilds? List their functions.

4. What were guilds? How did they make it difficult for new merchants to set business in towns of England? Explain.

5. Why did the merchants from the towns in Europe move to the countryside during the 17th and 18th century?

6. Highlight any three benefits of industrialization on the society

7. Highlight any three features of the Industrial Revolution.

8. Which inventions helped the cotton textile industry to adopt the factory system Explain?

9. Explain the position of women in Britain in the 19th century.  

10. Explain the process of industrialization in Britain during the 19th century.

11. Why were merchants not able to expand production within the towns of England? Explain any three reasons.

12. Why was it so difficult for merchants to set-up business in towns that they had to turn up to the countryside in 17th and 18th centuries in Europe?

13. Briefly explain the method and system of production in the countryside in England.

14. How did the factory production begin in England?

15. Explain the five causes of the industrial revolution in England.

16. Why did the industrial revolution begin in England in the latter half of the 18th century? Explain any three reasons.

17. How did the close relationship develop between the town and the countryside during the 19th century?

18. Describe any five major problems faced by new European merchants in setting up their industries in towns before the industrial revolution.

19. What was proto-industrialization? Why did the poor peasants and artisans in the countryside begin to work for the merchants from the towns?  

20. “In the eighteenth century Europe, the peasants and artisans in the countryside readily agreed to work for the merchants.” Explain any three reasons.

21. What is meant by proto-industrialization? How did it affect the rural peasants and artisans?

22. How did the poor peasants and artisans benefit during the proto-industrialization phase?

23. Why did poor peasants and artisans living in the countryside agree to work for merchants in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europe? Explain the reasons.

24. What is meant by proto-industrialization? Why was it successful in the countryside in England in the 17th century?

25. What was ‘proto-industrialization’? Explain the importance of proto-industrialization.

26. Why do historians agree that the typical workers in the mid-nineteenth century were not a machine operator but the traditional craftsperson and labourer?

27. “Historians now have come to increasingly recognize that the typical worker in the mid-nineteenth century was not a machine operator but the traditional craftsperson and labourer.” Analyze the statement.

28. ‘The typical worker in the mid-19th century was not a machine operator but the traditional craftsperson and labourer.’ Support the statement with examples.

29. “The modern industrialization could not marginalize the traditional industries in England.” Justify the statement with any four suitable arguments.

30. Why was it not easy to displace traditional industries by the new industries even at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain? Explain.