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What did 'mass production' bring to early-20th-century industrial economies?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did British textile exports to India initially face resistance after the Industrial Revolution?Read the answer and worked solution →India's first iron and steel factory, the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO), was set up in 1907 at:Read the answer and worked solution →The 'Swadeshi Movement' (1905-1908) urged Indians to:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian-owned cotton mills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries primarily produced:Read the answer and worked solution →Cattle plagues often recurred alongside which events?Read the answer and worked solution →Which crop came from the Indian subcontinent to the Spanish West Indies?Read the answer and worked solution →Soon after Columbus's visit, tomatoes were brought to which European country?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two groups replaced Indigenous peoples in the Americas?Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured servants in the American colonies could not marry without whose permission?Read the answer and worked solution →What do historians call large-scale production for world markets before factories?Read the answer and worked solution →Which producer associations trained craftspeople in towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Why could merchants not expand production in towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Which person sorted fibre and sold it on to the English clothier?Read the answer and worked solution →By roughly which decade had the earliest factories appeared in England?Read the answer and worked solution →How much raw cotton did Britain import in 1787 to feed its cotton industry?Read the answer and worked solution →How many steam engines were in England at the start of the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Of England's early steam engines, how many worked in cotton industries?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did James Watt patent his improved steam engine?Read the answer and worked solution →Which industrialist friend manufactured James Watt's improved steam engine?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What did 'mass production' bring to early-20th-century industrial economies?

  1. Standardised products + lower per-unit costs
  2. Lower wages for everyone
  3. End of all small enterprises (typical)
  4. Higher prices for cars
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Correct answer: A. Standardised products + lower per-unit costs

1. syllabus discusses mass production with the Ford example. 2. Mass production reduced per-unit cost (e.g. Model T price dropped from $850 in 1908 to under $300 by mid-1920s). 3. Standardisation made cars affordable for the working middle class. _Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 4 "The Age of Industrialisation", §Ford ¶2_

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Why did British textile exports to India initially face resistance after the Industrial Revolution?

  1. Indians refused to wear cloth (typical)
  2. British fabrics were illegal
  3. Indian fabrics had better quality and lower prices
  4. India banned imports
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Correct answer: C. Indian fabrics had better quality and lower prices

1. syllabus discusses the global trade dynamics. 2. Indian cotton fabrics — particularly Bengal's fine muslins and Coromandel calicos — had a strong global reputation. 3. British textiles initially struggled in India due to higher costs and inferior quality, until East India Company power was used to discriminate against Indian weavers. _Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 4 "The Age of Industrialisation", §India ¶1_

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India's first iron and steel factory, the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO), was set up in 1907 at:

  1. Mumbai
  2. Rourkela
  3. Bhilai
  4. Jamshedpur
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Correct answer: D. Jamshedpur

1. syllabus covers TISCO's founding. 2. Jamshedpur Jamshedji Tata's company set up the first integrated steel plant at Sakchi (renamed Jamshedpur) in 1907. 3. Bhilai and Rourkela are post-Independence public-sector steel plants. _Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 4 "The Age of Industrialisation", §Indian Industry ¶3_

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