Marks
37. Explain how Walpole contrived to keep the support of (a) the monarch, and
(b) parliament, in the period 1721-1742. (14)
How do you account for his fall in 1742 ? (6)
38. Describe the military achievement of (a) Clive in India and (6) Wolfe in
Canada. (12), (8)
39. Explain briefly what is meant by the following:—
{a) the old colonial system, and {b) “no taxation without representation ”. (8)
Give an account of the events in George Ill’s reign leading up to the revolt
of the American colonies. (12)
40. What is meant by the Enclosure Movement in England, and what was its
importance in the Agrarian Revolution ? (16)
Explain briefly the different situation in Scotland as regards enclosure. (4)
41. What were the main changes in inland transport in the Industrial Revolution
period before the coming of railways ? (20)
42. Write notes on two of the following:—
the Popish Plot; the “Young Pretender”; the Duke of Newcastle; the Carron
Ironworks; Adam Smith’s “ Wealth of Nations ”; “ Wilkes and Liberty ”. (20)
SECTION V (1783-1914)
43. Give an account of two of the following aspects of the work of the younger
Pitt:—
(a) his commercial and financial policy in time of peace;
{b) either the India Act (1784) or the Canada Act (1791);
(c) his policy of repression after the outbreak of the French war;
(d) his conduct of the wars against France. (20)
44. Give an account of two of the following:—
(a) the slave trade and its abolition;
(b) child labour and its regulation up to the Factory Act of 1833;
(c) the contribution of Francis Place or Robert Owen to the Trade Union
movement;
{d) the main terms and consequences of the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834). (20)
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