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The Jacobin club took its name from the former convent of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jacobins who wore long striped trousers were known as:Read the answer and worked solution →France abolished the monarchy and became a republic on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Reign of Terror covers the years:Read the answer and worked solution →Robespierre was convicted and guillotined in:Read the answer and worked solution →After the Jacobins fell, executive power passed to a Directory of how many members?Read the answer and worked solution →Women in France finally won the right to vote in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the revolutionariesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Old Regime wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the RevolutionRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Revolution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Estate or symbolRead the answer and worked solution →Sort thinkers, taxes and eventsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →French Revolution bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Around 1750, the world's largest producer of cotton textiles was:Read the answer and worked solution →European traders first met fine Indian cotton carried by Arab merchants at Mosul, giving the word:Read the answer and worked solution →The word calico derives from which port where the Portuguese landed?Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company's 1730 order book asked for how many pieces of cloth?Read the answer and worked solution →Bandanna derives from bandhna, a method of:Read the answer and worked solution →The British law of 1720 banning printed Indian cotton in England was the:Read the answer and worked solution →The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 by:Read the answer and worked solution →The foremost textile centre of the eighteenth century, famed for mulmul and jamdani, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The tanti weavers belonged to:Read the answer and worked solution →Spinning thread on the charkha and takli was done mostly by:Read the answer and worked solution →A Persian term for a warehouse where goods were collected before sale is:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1823 the Company received a petition from how many Bengal weavers?Read the answer and worked solution →By the 1880s what share of cotton clothes worn by Indians was British-made?Read the answer and worked solution →The charkha was placed at the centre of the Congress tricolour flag adopted in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first cotton mill in India was set up in Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Jacobin club took its name from the former convent of:

  1. St Louis
  2. St Jacob
  3. St Paul
  4. St Denis
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Correct answer: B. St Jacob

1. Members were mainly less prosperous people. 2. The convent was St Jacob in Paris. 3. Robespierre was their leader. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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The Jacobins who wore long striped trousers were known as:

  1. Montagnards
  2. Feuillants
  3. Sans-culottes
  4. Girondins
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Correct answer: C. Sans-culottes

1. The name means those without knee breeches. 2. They were the sans-culottes. 3. They also wore the red cap of liberty. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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France abolished the monarchy and became a republic on:

  1. 21 January 1793
  2. 10 August 1792
  3. 14 July 1789
  4. 21 September 1792
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Correct answer: D. 21 September 1792

1. The Convention was the newly elected assembly. 2. The monarchy ended on 21 September 1792. 3. Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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