Chapter 6, Peasants and Farmers
Class IX History CBSE
Guide | CBSE Guess | CBSE History Questions Answers
Additional Short Answer type CBSE Guess Questions
Question 1: Who was Captain Swing?
Answer: It
was a mythical name used in the threatening letters sent to the landowners to
destroy their threshers themselves which deprived workmen of their livelihood.
Question 2: Why did the whole
region of the Great Plains become a dust bowl?
Answer: The
persistent drought during the 1930s coupled with the ever increasing greed of
the zealous farmers who had recklessly uprooted all vegetation, facilitated the
winds to blow with a furious speed and turn the whole region into a dust bowl.
Question 3: Which were the two
major commercial crops grown in India in the 19th century during the colonial
period?
Answer:
Indigo and opium.
Question 4: What was the difference
in making the enclosures in the 16th century and in the 18th century?
Answer: In
the sixteenth century, the enclosures were made to promote sheep farming but in
the eighteenth century, the enclosures were made to increase grain production.
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9, Chapter 6 History textbook exercise questions
Question 5: What were the
advantages of the enclosures to the landlords?
Answer:
(1) They were found necessary for long term
investments on land.
(2) Enclosures proved useful for promoting sheep
farming and increasing food production.
(3) Enclosures also enabled the richer landowners to
expand the land under their control.
Question 6: In 1960s’ why did the
farmers begin growing turnip and clove?
Answer: Because turnip and clove were good fodders for
cattle. Moreover, cultivation of turnip and clove increased the nitrogen
content of the soil which proved quite useful for the growth of other crops as
well.
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