CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2026: question 5(a)
Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2026, paper 32/5/1, section A, question 5(a), for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.
Q5(a) · 2 marks · Very short answerThe Making of a Global World
Why did many Europeans migrate to America after sixteenth century ? Explain.
Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2026 board paper, set 32/5/1.
Hints
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Hint 1
Think about conditions in Europe that pushed people to leave.
Hint 2
What did America offer: land, crops, minerals?
Step-by-step solution
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- 1 mark
Until the nineteenth century Europe had poverty and hunger. Cities were overcrowded and diseases were widespread. Religious conflicts were common, and religious dissenters were punished harshly. So thousands fled to America.
- 1 mark
America's vast lands and abundant crops and minerals attracted settlers. African slaves worked the plantations that grew cotton and sugar for European markets. Silver from the mines of Peru and Mexico added to Europe's wealth and trade.
Answer: Europeans migrated to escape poverty, disease and religious persecution, and because America offered land, plantations and mineral wealth.
Where the marks are
- Push factors in Europe: poverty, hunger, overcrowding, disease, religious persecution (1 mark)
- Pull factors in America: land, plantations, crops, minerals such as silver (1 mark)
Revise the chapter
- Chapter: The Making of a Global World (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
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