Test: The Industrial Revolution- Assertion & Source Based Type Questions - UPSC MCQ

Direction: Find out from the following pairs which one is correctly matched:

Direction: Find out from the following pairs which one is correctly matched:

Direction: Find out from the following pairs which one is correctly matched:

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The invention of the railway took the entire process of industrialisation to a second stage in 1801. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) had devised an engine called the Puffing Devil that pulled trucks around the mine where he worked in Cornwall. In 1814 the railway engineer George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) constructed a locomotive called “The Blucher” that could pull a weight of 30 tons up-to a Hill at 4 mph. The first railway line connected the cities of Stockton and Darlington in 1825, a distance of 9 miles that was completed in two hours at a speed-up of up to 24 kph (15 mph), and the next railway line connected Liverpool and Manchester in 1830. Within 20 years, speeds of 30 to 50 miles an hour were usual.

In 1830, the use of canals revealed several problems. The congestion of vessels made movements slow on certain stages of canals; and Frost, flood or draught limited the time of their use. The Railways now appeared as it was convenient alternative. About 6,000 miles of railway was opened in Britain between 1830 and 1850, most of it into short bursts.

Q. Which incident took the entire process of industrialization to a second stage?

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The invention of railway took the entire process of industrialisation to a second stage in 1801. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) had devised and engine called the Puffing Devil that pulled trucks around the mine where he worked in Cornwall. In 1814 the railway engineer George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) constructed a locomotive called “The Blucher” that could pull a weight of 30 tons up-to a Hill at 4 mph. The first railway line connected the cities of Stockton and Darlington in 1825, a distance of 9 miles that was completed in two hours at a speed-up of up to 24 kph (15 mph), and the next railway line connected Liverpool and Manchester in 1830. Within 20 years, speeds of 30 to 50 miles an hour were usual.

In 1830, the use of canals revealed several problems. The congestion of vessels made movements slow on certain stages of canals; and Frost, flood or draught limited the time of their use. The Railways now appeared as it was convenient alternative. About 6,000 miles of railway was opened in Britain between 1830 and 1850, most of it into short bursts.

Q. What do you think, when did the first phase of the industrial revolution occur?

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The invention of railway took the entire process of industrialisation to a second stage in 1801. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) had devised and engine called the Puffing Devil that pulled trucks around the mine where he worked in Cornwall. In 1814 the railway engineer George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) constructed a locomotive called “The Blucher” that could pull a weight of 30 tons up-to a Hill at 4 mph. The first railway line connected the cities of Stockton and Darlington in 1825, a distance of 9 miles that was completed in two hours at a speed-up of up to 24 kph (15 mph), and the next railway line connected Liverpool and Manchester in 1830. Within 20 years, speeds of 30 to 50 miles an hour were usual.

In 1830, the use of canals revealed several problems. The congestion of vessels made movements slow on certain stages of canals; and Frost, flood or draught limited the time of their use. The Railways now appeared as it was convenient alternative. About 6,000 miles of railway was opened in Britain between 1830 and 1850, most of it into short bursts.

Q. What was the “Puffing Devil”?

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The invention of railway took the entire process of industrialisation to a second stage in 1801. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) had devised and engine called the Puffing Devil that pulled trucks around the mine where he worked in Cornwall. In 1814 the railway engineer George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) constructed a locomotive called “The Blucher” that could pull a weight of 30 tons up-to a Hill at 4 mph. The first railway line connected the cities of Stockton and Darlington in 1825, a distance of 9 miles that was completed in two hours at a speed-up of up to 24 kph (15 mph), and the next railway line connected Liverpool and Manchester in 1830. Within 20 years, speeds of 30 to 50 miles an hour were usual.

In 1830, the use of canals revealed several problems. The congestion of vessels made movements slow on certain stages of canals; and Frost, flood or draught limited the time of their use. The Railways now appeared as it was convenient alternative. About 6,000 miles of railway was opened in Britain between 1830 and 1850, most of it into short bursts.

Q. What problems did the use of canals reveal in the 1830s?

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The Factory managers considered child labour to be important training for future factory work. The evidence from British factory records reveals that about half of the factory workers had started work when they were less than 10 years old and 28% when they were under 14. Women may well have gained increased financial Independence and self-esteem from their jobs but this was more than offset by the humiliating terms of work they endured, the children they lost at birth or in early childhood and the squalid urban slums that industrial work compelled them to live in.

Q. Why child labour is considered important for factory work.

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The Factory managers considered child labour to be important training for future factory work. The evidence from British factory records reveals that about half of the factory workers had started work when they were less than 10 years old and 28% when they were under 14. Women may well have gained increased financial Independence and self-esteem from their jobs but this was more than offset by the humiliating terms of work they endured, the children they lost at birth or in early childhood and the squalid urban slums that industrial work compelled them to live in.

Q. As per evidence from British factory records 28% of factory workers are:

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The Factory managers considered child labour to be important training for future factory work. The evidence from British factory records reveals that about half of the factory workers had started work when they were less than 10 years old and 28% when they were under 14. Women may well have gained increased financial Independence and self-esteem from their jobs but this was more than offset by the humiliating terms of work they endured, the children they lost at birth or in early childhood and the squalid urban slums that industrial work compelled them to live in.

Q. According to the extracts, at what age, half of the factory workers had started working in factories.

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The Factory managers considered child labour to be important training for future factory work. The evidence from British factory records reveals that about half of the factory workers had started work when they were less than 10 years old and 28% when they were under 14. Women may well have gained increased financial Independence and self-esteem from their jobs but this was more than offset by the humiliating terms of work they endured, the children they lost at birth or in early childhood and the squalid urban slums that industrial work compelled them to live in.

Q. What do you think, why did industrialists in Britain prefer to employ women and children?

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A survey in 1842 revealed that the average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities. It was 15 years in Birmingham, 17 in Manchester, 21 in Derby. More people died and died at a young age in the new industrial cities than in villages they had come from. Half the children failed to survive beyond the age of 5. The increase in the population of cities was because of immigrants, rather than by an increase in the number of children born to families who already lived there.

Deaths were primarily caused by epidemics of disease that sprang from the pollution of water, like cholera and typhoid, or of the Year air like tuberculosis. More than 31000 people died from an outbreak of cholera in 1832. Until late in the 19th Century, Municipal authorities were negligent in attending to these dangerous conditions of life and the medical knowledge to understand and cure these diseases was unknown.

Q. What was the main reason for the increase in population of cities?

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A survey in 1842 revealed that the average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities. It was 15 years in Birmingham, 17 in Manchester, 21 in Derby. More people died and died at a young age in the new industrial cities than in villages they had come from. Half the children failed to survive beyond the age of 5. The increase in the population of cities was because of immigrants, rather than by an increase in the number of children born to families who already lived there.

Deaths were primarily caused by epidemics of disease that sprang from the pollution of water, like cholera and typhoid, or of the Year air like tuberculosis. More than 31000 people died from an outbreak of cholera in 1832. Until late in the 19th Century, Municipal authorities were negligent in attending to these dangerous conditions of life and the medical knowledge to understand and cure these diseases was unknown.

Q. What do you think according to this extract, which authority was not able to attend these dangerous conditions?

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A survey in 1842 revealed that the average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities. It was 15 years in Birmingham, 17 in Manchester, 21 in Derby. More people died and died at a young age in the new industrial cities than in villages they had come from. Half the children failed to survive beyond the age of 5. The increase in the population of cities was because of immigrants, rather than by an increase in the number of children born to families who already lived there.

Deaths were primarily caused by epidemics of disease that sprang from the pollution of water, like cholera and typhoid, or of the Year air like tuberculosis. More than 31000 people died from an outbreak of cholera in 1832. Until late in the 19th Century, Municipal authorities were negligent in attending to these dangerous conditions of life and the medical knowledge to understand and cure these diseases was unknown.

What did the survey of 1842 reveal? Choose the correct option?

Assertion (A) : the average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities

Reason (R) : deaths were caused by epidemic of diseases like cholera and Typhoid

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A survey in 1842 revealed that the average lifespan of workers was lower than that of any other social group in cities. It was 15 years in Birmingham, 17 in Manchester, 21 in Derby. More people died and died at a young age in the new industrial cities than in villages they had come from. Half the children failed to survive beyond the age of 5. The increase in the population of cities was because of immigrants, rather than by an increase in the number of children born to families who already lived there.

Deaths were primarily caused by epidemics of disease that sprang from the pollution of water, like cholera and typhoid, or of the Year air like tuberculosis. More than 31000 people died from an outbreak of cholera in 1832. Until late in the 19th Century, Municipal authorities were negligent in attending to these dangerous conditions of life and the medical knowledge to understand and cure these diseases was unknown.

Q. What was the major factor that revealed in the survey in 1842?