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

The Europeans who settled first in North America were

New Amsterdam was renamed as

Assertion (A): England passed the Navigation Acts.
Reason (R): The Act mandated that colonial produce should be exported only in British ships.

Assertion (A): In 1770, England abolished the taxes on products except tea.
Reason (R): This was retained to assert that the British Parliament had a right to tax the colonies directly as well as indirectly.

Boston Tea Party incident took place in the year

Which of the following statement/s is/are correct?
Statement I: On July 4, 1776, all the thirteen colonies declared independence from Britain.
Statement II: The Declaration of Independence was essentially the work of Thomas Jefferson.

In the American War of Independence the British army was led by

Which of the following statement/s is/are correct?
Statement I: The peasantry made up the bulk of French society.
Statement II: The peasants in France were serfs.
Statement III: The peasants had to work certain days in the week for their lords for remuneration.

The noble who led the protest that led to Tennis Court Oath was

Assertion (A): The rising bourgeoisie wanted their political power to match their economic status.
Reason (R): They wanted to have a voice in government.

Match and choose the correct answer from the code given below.
(A) Montesquieu - 1. Jacobins
(B) Voltaire - 2. English Philosopher
(C) Reign of Terror - 3. The Age of Louis XIV
(D) John Locke - 4. The Spirit of Laws

The storming of the Bastille happened on

During the French Revolution ________ was dissatisfied with the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen, as it excluded women.

The official residence of Louis XVI was

________ was earlier known as Saint-Domingue.

The revolution in Mexico was led by

The liberator of Argentina was

________ city acquired the nickname "Cottonopolis".

Match and choose the correct answer from the code given below.
(A) Michael Faraday - 1. Arkwright
(B) Elias Howe - 2. Robert Fulton
(C) Water Frame - 3. Electricity
(D) Steam Boat - 4. Sewing machine

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