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QUESTIONS CLASS 10TH

1. What does Nation State mean?

Answer:- A nation state was one in

which the majority of its citizens, and
not only its rulers, came to develop a
sense of common identity and shared
history or descent.

2. Which new name was given to

"The Estate General" ?
Answer:- The Estate General was
elected by the body of active citizens
and renamed it as "National
Assembly".

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3. What benefits were given in the
Napoleonic Code?
Answer:- Napoleonic Code did away
with all

4. What was the meaning of

Liberalism for new middle classes?
Answer:- For the new middle classes,
liberalism stood for freedom for the
individual and equality of all before the
law. Politically it emphasised the
concept of government by consent.

5. What is Zollverein?
Answer:- In 1834, a customs union or
Zollverein was formed at the initiative
of Prussia and joined by most of the
German states.

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6. Which country met at Treaty of
Vienna?
Answer:- In 1815 , representatives of
the European powers- Britain, Russia ,
Prussia and Austria, who had
collectively defeated Napoleon, met at
Vienna to draw up a settlement for
Europe.

7. Who hosted the Treaty of Vienna?

Answer:- Austria Chancellor, Duke
metternich hosted this congress at
Vienna .

8. Who were Marianne and

Germania? What was the
importance of the way in which they
were portrayed? (Cbse 2020)

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 Answer:- Marianne and Germania were
both female allegories invented by
artist in the 19th century to represent
the nation
Importance of the way in which they
were portrayed:-
i) Marianne was sewn in a red cap, the
tricolour and the arcade. The statues
of Marianne were excited in public
squares to remind the public of the
National symbol of unity.
ii) Germania became the allegory of
the German nations. Germania wears
a crown of oak leaves as German Oak
stands for heroism .

9. Explain the Napoleonic Code.

(Cbse 2018)
Answer:- - Privileges based on birth were
removed.
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-Feudal system was abolished and
peasants were freed from serfdom and
manorial dues.
-In towns, guild restrictions were
removed.
-Transport and communication system
were improved.
-Standardized weights measures and a
common national currency were
introduced.

10.What was Chinese influence on

Vietnam? (Cbse 2019)
Answer:- Vietnam was under the
shadow of powerful empire of China.
Even when an independent country
was established in what is now
northern and central Vietnam, its rulers
continued to maintain the Chinese

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 system if government as well Chinese
culture.

11. How was French Indo-China

formed? (Cbse 2019)
Answer:- French troops captured
northern region of Vietnam. After the
Franco - Chinese war the French
assumed control of Tonkin and
Annam. In 1887, French Indo China
was formed.

12.What was Kheda Movement?

(Cbse 2012)
Answer:- it was Second early
satyagrahi movement took place in
1917. In it Gandhiji organised a
satyagraha to support the peasants to
Kheda in Gujarat.

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13.Which was the third early
Satyagrahi movement? (Cbse 2015)
Answer:- In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi
went to Ahmedabad to organise
Satyagraha movement amongst cotton
mill workers.

14.What was Rowlatt Act of 1919?

(Cbse 2010)
Answer:- It gave the British government
enormous powers to repress political
activities, and allowed detention of
political prisoners without trial for two
years.

15.Why Martial Law was imposed in

Amritsar? (Cbse 2014)
Answer:- Local leaders were picked up
from Amritsar, and Mahatma Gandhi
was not allowed to enter Delhi. On
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 10th April, the police in Amritsar fired
upon a peaceful procession, provoking
widespread attacks on banks, post
office and railway stations. So Matrial
Law was imposed.

16.Why people gathered in

Jallaianwala bagh on 13th April
1919? (Cbse 2017)
Answer:- A crowd of villagers had to
come to Amritsar to attend a fair, they
also went to enclose ground of
Jallaianwala Bagh . Being from outside
they were unaware of the martial law
that had been imposed and were killed
by General Dyer.

17.Why Khilafat Movement began ?

(Cbse 2021)

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 Answer:- The Khilafat movement
(1919-1924) was an agitation by
Indian Muslims allied with Indian
nationalism in the years following
World War I. Its purpose was to
pressure the British government to
preserve the authority of the Ottoman
Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the
breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the
end of the war.

17. Who started Khilafat

Movement? (Cbse 2016)
Answer:- Two young brother
Muhammed Ali and Shaukat Ali
started Khilafat Movement.

18.What was Chauri Chaura

Movement? (Cbse 2020)

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Answer:- The Chauri Chaura incident
occurred at Chauri Chaura in the
Gorakhpur district of the United
Province, (modern Uttar Pradesh) in
British India on 4 February 1922, when
a large group of protesters,
participating in the Non-cooperation
movement, clashed with police, who
opened fire. It took place in Gorakhpur,
chauri chaura when a peaceful
demonstration in a bazar renewed into
violent clash with the police. Then
those demonstrators went to the police
station, locked the policeman inside
and put the police station on fire
burning about 11 policeman alive.
Hearing of the incidence, Mahatma
Gandhi called for Non cooperation
movement.

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19.Who formed Swaraj Party? (Cbse
2013)
Answer:- Prominent leaders such as
Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru
formed the Swaraj Party within
Congress and argued to return to
council politics. Whereas the other
faction, which consisted of young
leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and
Subhas Chandra Bose.

20.Who was Sir John Simon?

(Cbse2011)
Answer:- Sir John Simon came from
England and sent by new Tory
government of Britain and forced a
statutory commission to look into
functioning of the constitutional system
in India.
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21.What was Muhammad Ali jinnah'w
proposal for Muslims? (Cbse2018)
Answer:- Jinnah, one of the leader of
the Muslim league, was willing to give
up the demand for separate
electorates , if muslims were assured
reserved seats in the Central
Assembly and representative in
proportion to population in the Muslim
dominated provinces of Bengal and
Punjab.

22.Write a short note on Dandi

March? (Cbse 2016)
Answer:- Mahatma Gandhi started
famous Dandi March along with his 78
trusted volunteers.
The march was about 240miles.

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 It started from Gandhi's ashram in
sabarmati to Gujarat's coastal town of
Dandi.
The volunteers walked 24 daus about
10 miles a day.
Thousands came to hear Gandhiji
whenever he stopped. On 6th April, he
reached Dandi and violated the salt
law by manufacturing salt , by boiling
sea water.

23.How was Civil disobedience

movement different from Non
cooperation movement? (Cbse2017)
Answer:- people were now asked not
only to refuse cooperation with the
British but also to break colonial laws.
Thousands in different oarts of the
country broke salt law. The salt law
manufactured salt and demonstrated
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 in front of government salt factories.
Peasants refused to pay land revenue
and chaukidari taxes.

24.Which three early Satyagrahi

movements were organised by
Mahatma Gandhi? (Cbse2019)
Answer:- i) 1916 Champaran
movement in Bihar:- to inspire the
peasants to struggle against the
oppressive plantation system.
ii) 1917 Kheda Movement ;- to support
the peasants of Kheda district of
Gujarat who could not pay the revenue
due to crop failure and plague
epidemic.
iii) 1918 Movement in Ahmedabad :- to
organise a Satyagraha movement

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 amongst cotton mill workers against
British atrocities.

25.Briefly explain the incident of

Jallaianwala Bagh massacre and its
effects on Punjab ? (Cbse2018)
Answer:- on 13th april 1919 the
infamous Jallaianwala Bagh incident
took place. On that day a crowd of
villagers who had come to Amritsar to
attend a fair gathered in the enclosed
ground of Jallaianwala Bagh. Being
from outside the city, they were
unaware of the Martial law that had
been imposed. General Dyer entered
the area, blocked the only exit point,
and opened fire on the crowd killing
and wounding hundreds. His objective
was to produce a moral effect to create

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 in minds of Satyagrahis a feeling of
terror and awe. As the news spread
crowds took to the streets. There were
strikes, clashes with police and attacks
on government buildings.

26.What is meant by Satyagrahis?

(Cbse2021)
Answer:- the the idea of Satyagraha
emphasize the power of truth and the
need of search for truth. It's suggested
that if the cause was true if the
struggle was against injustice then
physical force was not necessary to
fight the oppressor.
Without seeking vengeance or being
aggressive a satyagrahi could win the
battle through non violence.

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 This could be done by appealing to the
conscience of oppressor.
People including oppressors had to be
persuaded to see the truth instead of
being forced to accept truth through
the use of violence.
By this struggle it was bound to
ultimately triumph.

27.Factors were responsible for the

economic depression in 1929?
(Cbse2018)
Answer:- i) agriculture cultural over
production:- agriculture over
production led to the falling prices. As
prices fell agriculture income declined
farmers tried to expand their

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 production and sell more in the market
to earn.
This worsened the situation as prices
further the fell leading to farm produce
rotting in the market with lack of
buyers.
ii) withdrawal of US loans:- many
countries financed their investment
through loans from US but US $1
billion birthday reduced to one quarter
and countries depending on loans now
faced an acute crisis.

28.What complex changes took place

in the global agriculture economy
by 1890? (Cbse 2018)
Answer:- food no longer came from a
nearby village or town but from
thousand of miles away it was not

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 grown by peasants telling his own land
but by an agricultural worker it was
transported by railway built for that
very purpose and by shapes which
were increasingly manned decades by
low paid workers from Southern
Europe, Asia ,Africa and the
Caribbean.

29.State how America's trade

enhanced after it's discovery?
(Cbse2020)
Answer:- before it's discovery America
had been cut off from regular contact
with the rest of the world for million of
years. But from 16th century it's worst
Lance and abundant crops and
minerals began to transform trade and
lives everywhere.

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 Many expeditions were set of insearch
of El Dorado the tabled city of gold.

30.Why did people start migrating to

the other continents from Europe?
(Cbse2014)
Answer:- the demand for labour in
places where labour was in short
supply as an America and Australia
led to more migration.
Nearly 50 million people emigrated
from Europe to America and Australia
in the 19th century.
All over the world some 150 million
are estimated to have left their homes
crossed oceans and washed distances
overland in search of a better future.

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31.Why Europeans attracted to
Africa? (Cbse2022)
Answer:- in the late 19th century
Europeans wear attracted to Africa
due to its vast resources of land and
minerals.
European scheme to Africa hopping to
established plantations and mines to
produce crops and minerals for export
in Europe.
They could get cheap label also to
work on lesser wages in the mines and
plantation farms.

32.What kind of life did the worker led

during industrial revolution? (Cbse
2021)

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Answer:- as news of possible jobs
reached the countryside hundreds left
for the cities.
One had a relative or a friend in a
factory he went more likely to get a job
quickly.
Many job seekers had to wait for week
spending nights under bridge or night
Shelters. Seasonality of work in many
industries went longer periods without
work.
After the busy season was over the
poor went on streets again.
Period of employment the number of
days of work determine the average
daily income of the workers.

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33.How was cloth manufactured in
England during the proto industrial
period? (Cbse 2021)
Answer:- merchants where based in
towns but the work was done mostly in
country sides.
A marchant clothier in England
purchased wool from a wool stapler.
Carried it to the spinners than yarn is
taken to the fulllers and then to the
dyers.
The finishing was done in London
before the export merchant sold the
cloth in the international market.

34.How was infrastructure developed

after the 1840s? (Cbse 2020)

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 Answer:- building activity intensified in
the city opening up greater
opportunities of employment.
Roads were widened.
New railway stations came up.
Drainage and sewers were Laid.
Rivers were Embarked and a number
of workers in the transport industry
doubled.

35. Describe In brief how printing

developed in Japan? (Cbse 2011)
Answer:- Buddhist monasteries from
China introduced hand printing
technology into Japan around AD 768
to 770.

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 The oldest printed Japanese book was
the Buddhist diamond Sutra with
wood cut illustrations.
Pictures were printed on textiles
playing cards and paper money
Printing of visual material lead to
interesting publishing practices.

36.How was Portuguese influence on

printing? (Cbse 2015)
Answer:- printing press first came to
Goa with the Portuguese missionaries in
the mid 16th centuries.
Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed
several tracts.
About 50 books had been printed in the
Konkani and kanara languages.

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Dutch protestant missionaries had printed
32 Tamil text many of them were
translations of older works.

37.Did printing culture affect women

in the 19th century? (Cbse2017)
Answer:- women became important
as readers as well as writers.
Penny magazines were especially
meant for women as well manual
teaching proper behaviours and
housekeeping.
When novels began to be written in
the 19th century women were seen as
important readers.
The best known novelist had defined a
new type of women as a person with

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 will, strength of personality,
determination and the power to think.

38.State how mechanical printing

surfaced in China? (Cbse 2020)
Answer:- the new readership developed in
China which needed a new technology to
print.
Western printing techniques and
mechanical process were imported in the
late 19th century as Western power
established their outpost in China.
Shanghai became the hub of new print
culture and from hand printing there was
now a gradual shift to mechanical printing.

39.What type of books were printed

in Japan? (Cbse 2016)

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 Answer:- printing of visual material
lead to interesting publishing practices.
The late 18th century illustrated
collections of paintings depicted as
elegant urban culture involving artist
courtesans and the tea house
gathering.
There were books on women musical
instrument ,calculations ,flower
arrangement, proper etiquette cooking
and famous places.

40.How did the British pass certain

regulations to control freedom of
press in India? (Cbse 2019)
Answer:- by 1820 the Calcutta
supreme court passed certain
regulations to control the freedom of
press.

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Company begin encouraging
newspapers that would celebrate
British rule.
Any editors give urgent petitions to
Governor General Bentick, who
agreed to revise press law.
After the revolt the attitude to freedom
of press changed.
Engaged Englishmen demanded
control on the vernacular press as they
were becoming nationalist.
In 1878 the vernacular press act was
passed it provided a government with
extensive rights to censor reports and
editorial in the vernacular press.
Now on the government kept regular
check on the vernacular newspapers
published in different provinces.

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When a report was judged seditious
the newspaper where want and if the
warning went ignored the press world
would be seized by the government.

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