Unit 3 Ch 5 : Popular Struggles and Movements — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

Explain with suitable examples the impact of the expansion of business activities in an economy.

Discuss the common forms of consumer exploitation.

Why is land considered as an important resource? Explain with four facts in reference with Indian land resource.

Distinguish between ‘dry land farming’ and ‘wet land farming’ by staining four points.

Are these the example of consumer exploitation taking in the market? Justify your opinion in each case.

1. Hoarding.
2. Black marketing.
3. Adulteration.

How are overlapping differences different from cross-cutting?
OR
Distinguish between overlapping and cross-cutting differences.

OR
Explain the overlapping and cross cutting differences.

How does a multilateral settlement system work?

Compare and contrast the merits and demerits of Roadways with those of Railways.

Complete the following statement to show how the production process in the garment industry is spread across countries.
The brand tag says ‘Made in Thailand’ but they are not Thai products. We dissect the manufacturing process and look for the best solution at each step. We are doing it globally. In making garments, the company may, for example, get cotton fibre from Korea, ........

Read the extract answer the questions that follow:
Economists began to think in terms of the national economy. They talked of how the nation could develop and what economic measures could help forge this nation together.
Friedrich List, Professor of Economics at the University of Tubingen in Germany, wrote in 1834:
'The aim of the zollverein is to bind the Germans economically into a nation. It will strengthen the nation materially as much by protecting its interest externally as by stimulating its internal productivity. It ought to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and provincial interests. The German people have realised that a free economic system is the only means to engender national feeling.'

1. What was the view of the German economists?
2. Who was Friedrich List? How did he explain the Zollverein?