Protest Movements

The movements for ------------------ showed the possibilities of collective mass action, both in creating democratic institutions like the French parliamentary assemblies.

• Liberty

• Equality

• Fraternity’

• All of the above

England had been at war with France for a long time – from

• 2019 to 2020

• 1792 to 1815

• 1795 to 1799

• 1818 to 1919

The two Combination Acts were passed to

• Fix minimum wages of the workers

• Make the working conditions congenial

• Prohibit the workers from protesting and forming associations

• Maintain old corruption.

_________ were those laws that prevented the import of cheaper food until prices in Britain had risen to a certain level.

• Lentil Laws

• Mighty Force

• Common laws

• Corn Laws

The enclosure movement, which caused hardship to farmers, began from

• 1760s

• 1770s

• 1780s

• 1790s

Which one of the following is not true regarding the demands of participants of Luddism?

• Fix working hours

• Control over women and child labour

• Employment for those who had lost their jobs due to the coming of machinery

• Right to form trade unions to legally present their demands

___________ was the staple item in the diet of the poor and its price governed their standard of living.

• Pizza

• Bread

• Corn

• Rice

Luddism was led by

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• General Ned Ludd

• Immanuel Kant

Luddism raised demand in favour of the factory owners.

• True

• False