The Age of Revolutions Additional One Mark Online Test (12th Standard History)

Which British tax of 1765 forced the American settlers to use stamps on all legal documents and pay for them?

Arrange the following events of the American colonies in chronological order.
1. Boston Tea Party
2. Stamp Act
3. Tax on sugar and molasses
4. Boston Massacre

Which of the following statements about the Treaty of Paris (1783) are correct?
1. Britain recognised the freedom of the 13 colonies as the United States of America.
2. Spain obtained Florida from Great Britain.
3. France gained certain British territories in the West Indies, India and Africa.
4. Holland obtained the area bordered by the Mississippi River on the west.

Which Englishman wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776), which sold over 150,000 copies and justified the demands of the American colonists?

Match the terms of eighteenth-century France with their meanings.
(A) Tithe - 1. Old order
(B) Gabelle - 2. Salt tax
(C) Ancien regime - 3. Educated middle class
(D) Bourgeoisie - 4. Tax collected by the church

Assertion (A): Robespierre opposed the Girondin plan to declare war on the foreign powers.
Reason (R): He argued that war would open the door to counter-revolution.

Arrange the following events of the French Revolution in chronological order.
1. September Massacres
2. Tennis Court Oath
3. Execution of Louis XVI
4. Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Which one of the following was NOT a measure of the Jacobin-dominated government of 1793-94?

After Toussaint L'Ouverture was kidnapped and killed, who organised black resistance in Saint-Domingue and defeated Napoleon's army?

The congress convened at Angostura in 1819 named Simon Bolivar president of Gran Colombia. Which of the following present-day countries was NOT part of Gran Colombia?

In which year did Brazil obtain independence from Portugal, with Pedro I becoming its first emperor?

Match the inventions with their inventors.
(A) Flying shuttle - 1. Abraham Darby
(B) Spinning Jenny - 2. John Kay
(C) Crompton's Mule - 3. Samuel Crompton
(D) Using coke for smelting iron - 4. James Hargreaves

Which of the following statements about the Industrial Revolution in Germany are correct?
1. The Zollverein, a union of states with free trade as common policy, was formed by Prussia.
2. The unification of Germany in 1871 made industrial development more rapid.
3. Companies like Bayer and Hoechst led the chemical industry of Germany.
4. By the end of the nineteenth century Germany still lagged far behind Britain in industry.

Arrange the following events of the working-class movement in chronological order.
1. Haymarket Massacre in Chicago
2. Tolpuddle Prosecution
3. Peterloo Massacre
4. Great Railroad Strike in the USA