
Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer by choosing from the given options:
List I
List II
(A) Flying Shuttle Loom
(i) Samuel Crompton
(B) Spinning Jenny
(ii) Richard Arkwright
(C) Water Frame
(iii) James Hargreaves
(D) Mule
(iv) John Kay

Important Questions on The Age of Industrialisation
Which of the following statements about the lives of workers in early nineteenth century England are true?
I. Not all of them had access to jobs in the city as urban employment still depended on social and familial connections
II. Work was largely seasonal which meant the poor had to return to the streets or to the countryside whenever the busy season was over.
III. They welcomed the introduction of new technology such as Spinning Jenny as they thought that their work would become easier with the new device.
IV. Even as daily wages increased the impact was mitigated on account of small number of days for which most of them were employed.

Match Column 'A' with Column 'B' and choose the correct option:
Column A | Column B |
I. Jobber | (a) Run-down house |
II.Tenements | (b) Pickwick papers |
III.Inquisition | (c) To get new recruits into mills |
IV.Serial | (d) A former Roman Catholic court for identifying and punishing heretics |








Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:
Column A Column B
Proto-industrial system Production process brought together under one roof and management.
Factory By turning one single wheel a worker could spin several threads at the same time.
Spinning Jenny After the sy season was over, the poor were on the starts again.
Seasonality of work Controlled by merchants and the goods produced by a vast number of producers working within their family farms, not in factories.





John Kay invented the flying shuttle.
Richard Arkwright's cotton mill.
Stephenson designed his first locomotive.
James Watt's steam engine.


In Victorian Britain, which classes preferred handmade products?


Explain the statement:
Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.


