Question 1 - Assertion Reasoning - Chapter 4 Class 10 History - The Age of Industrialization - History

Assertion (A): The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.

Reason (R): By 1873, Britain was exporting Iron and Steel worth about £77 million, double the value of its Cotton Export.

Answer: 

So, the correct answer is ‘b’

Explanation : 

Cotton was the leading part of the first stage of the process of building industry up to the 1840s.

After that, the Iron and Steel Industry led the way in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s as the demand for iron and steel increased rapidly .

Let’s check

• Assertion : The most dynamic industries in Britain were cotton and metals which is true.
• Reason : By 1873, Britain was exporting Iron and  Steel worth about £77 million, double the value of its Cotton Export which is true.
• Is assertion the correct explanation for reasoning - 

So, 

• Assertion is true
• Reasoning is true
• But, the reasoning is not the correct explanation for the assertion

Thus, the correct answer is (b)