Welcome to your The Age of Industrialization (Quiz)
1. What was a major factor that determined workers' income in Victorian Britain?
2. What role did labels play in the selling of cloth produced in Manchester?
3. Why did industrialists in Victorian Britain prefer hand labour over machines?
4. What does the term "swadeshi" refer to in the context of Indian advertisements?
5. In the illustration described from E.T. Paull’s music book, what does the wheel with wings symbolize?
6. What impact did the competition between British and Indian manufacturers have on the development of a consumer culture in India?
7. What type of goods did European Managing Agencies focus on in India?
8. What was one major reason poor peasants in the countryside agreed to work for merchants?
9. What was a significant reason for the decline of Indian weavers in the mid-19th century?
10. What term do historians use to refer to the phase of industrialisation before the rise of factories?
11. Why did the upper classes in Victorian Britain prefer handmade goods?
12. What does the mechanic in the second image represent?
13. Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf and Red Sea ports?
14. How much raw cotton was Britain importing in 1760 to feed its cotton industry?
15. When did the earliest factories in England come up?
16. Which nation is referred to as the first industrial nation in the chapter?
17. In which year did J.N. Tata set up the first iron and steel works in India?
18. What was one reason for the slow spread of technological changes in industries?
19. What was the primary reason many weavers began refusing loans from the East India Company?
20. In the second image described from the trade magazine, what does Aladdin represent?
21. Why did merchants in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe turn to the countryside for production?
22. What is commonly associated with industrialisation?
23. Who was a prominent Parsi industrialist involved in building industrial empires in India?
24. Which industries were the most dynamic in Britain during the first phase of industrialisation?
25. Which industry was most affected by the introduction of the Spinning Jenny?
26. Which city saw the establishment of the Elgin Mill in the 1860s?
27. Which Indian businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
28. What kind of products were produced using hand labour in mid-nineteenth-century Britain?
29. In which country were industrialists keen on using mechanical power due to a shortage of human labour?
30. What was a major change in the Indian cotton industry during the First World War?
31. What were European Managing Agencies like Bird Heiglers & Co. primarily responsible for in India?
32. Who is credited with inventing the Spinning Jenny?
33. What does the goddess-like figure in E.T. Paull's music book represent?
34. What was the first symbol of the new era of industrialisation in England?
35. What role did jobbers play in the recruitment of workers for mills?
36. What led to the decline of Surat and Hoogly as major trading ports in the 18th century?
37. By what factor did the production of cotton piece-goods in India increase between 1900 and 1912?
38. When was the first cotton mill in Bombay established?
39. What was the role of the gomastha appointed by the East India Company?
40. Why were cotton mills important in the process of industrialisation?
41. By 1873, what was the value of Britain's iron and steel exports?
42. What was one of the main strategies used by British manufacturers to sell products in India?
43. Where did most workers in the Bombay cotton industries come from in 1911?
44. In the proto-industrial system, how many workers were typically employed by each merchant clothier?
45. In which regions were most of the large industries located in 1911?
46. By 1787, how much had Britain's import of raw cotton increased to?
47. In what way did the depiction of emperors and nawabs in advertisements contribute to the products’ credibility?
48. What major innovation did Richard Arkwright create?
49. Which imagery was commonly used on cloth labels to appeal to Indian buyers?
50. How did the First World War impact industrial production in India?
51. What was a significant challenge for weavers producing coarse cloth?
52. Before the age of machine industries, which types of goods from India dominated the international market in textiles?
53. Why did weavers begin to revolt against the Company’s control in the late 18th century?
54. How many steam engines were there in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century?
55. Which country’s cotton supplies were cut off during the American Civil War, causing a price rise in Indian raw cotton?
