What was the relationship between free trade and national unity?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: National unity could reduce trade barriers
Before political unification, separate states often maintained different taxes, currencies, tolls, and commercial regulations. National unity could remove internal barriers and create a common market in which goods moved more easily. Therefore option A is correct. Option B is the opposite of the historical tendency, C confuses free trade with feudal taxation, and D ignores the economic role of political integration in strengthening nationalism.
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What is the correct answer to this question?
National unity could reduce trade barriers
Why is this the correct answer?
Before political unification, separate states often maintained different taxes, currencies, tolls, and commercial regulations. National unity could remove internal barriers and create a common market in which goods moved more easily. Therefore option A is correct. Option B is the opposite of the historical tendency, C confuses free trade with feudal taxation, and D ignores the economic role of political integration in strengthening nationalism.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 10 Social Science question. Chapter: The Age of Industrialisation. Topic: The Making of Nationalism in Europe (Aristocracy, New Middle Class, Liberal Nationalism).
