SSLC (English Medium) कक्षा ९ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

What was the need for slaves in the Southern states?

Why were a series of taxes imposed on the colonists?

Mention about Boston Massacre, (or) Why were Townshend Acts repealed?

State the reasons for the meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 in Philadelphia.

What signaled the outbreak of the American War of Independence?

Mention the names of the prominent members of the second continental congress.

Write about the pamphlet ‘Common Sense’.

State the importance of the battle of Saratoga.

What was the role played by Cornwallis in the American war of Independence?

Mention the importance of the victory of the Americans at Yorktown.

Mention the three major revolutions in the second half of the eighteenth century in the modern world.

Answer all questions given under the heading.

Plantations and the slave labor

1. Why did the southern states resort to acquiring slaves from Africa?
2. How were these slaves treated?
3. Did the Northern state resort to acquiring slaves? Give reasons.
4. What happened to the Native Americans?

Answer all questions given under the heading.

Increasing incidence of Taxation

1. What was the Sugar Act?
2. What was the Currency Act?
3. Explain the Quartering Act.
4. What was the Stamp Act?

Answer all questions given under the heading.

Declaration of Independence

1. When was the pamphlet Common Sense published?
2. Who moved a resolution for independence?
3. Who drafted the Declaration of Independence? When was it adopted by Congress?
4. Mention the significance of this day.

How did the American war of Independence ended in the declaration of independence?

State the results of the American war of Independence.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

What is Industrial Revolution?

Due to the Industrial Revolution goods began to be produced by ______.

Explain the term industrial revolution.