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Social and Political Movements

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Social and political movements drive historical change through civil disobedience and organized campaigns. This hub covers key topics like the civil rights movement, suffragettes, abolitionism, and labor strikes. These themes frequently appear in general studies and history papers.

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Social and Political Movements Questions

Multiple choice

In what city did Martin Luther King lead a bus boycott?

  1. Selma

  2. Asheboro

  3. Washington D.C.

  4. Montgomery
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Explanation

The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

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Which of the following was the organization founded by Poykayil Sree Kumara Gurudevan?

  1. Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam

  2. Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham

  3. Pratyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha

  4. Sree Mulam Praja Sabha
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Explanation

Poykayil Sree Kumara Gurudevan propagated his ideologies through songs and speeches that expressed the miseries and agonies of slavery and the protest of the depressed. He was a social reformer who combined knowledge and spirituality for the liberation of the depressed classes.
He fought against caste discrimination and exploitation and founded the organization Pratyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha for philanthropy, universal brotherhood and world peace.

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A Social Movement is social platform that enables people to showcase their needs and visions. 

  1. True

  2. False
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Explanation

Social movements are instrument of Social Change. Social movement is collective action of people either to promote or resist a change in society or group of which it is a part. Social movement is not sudden outbreak but an organised collective action followed by ideology behind the action. 


As society develops, their occurs changes in system or some societies lack behind, people of those societies forms group and aim at bringing about change in values, norms and structure hence social movement are natural and found in every range of society. 

They are oriented towards social change that derive people to join and to inspire by their goal and ideology.

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Alcohol prohibition movement was predominantly a _________ led movement.

  1. Women

  2. Men

  3. Government

  4. None
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Alcohol prohibition movement are predominantly women led as it is believed by female community that the prohibition of alcohol would solve many social evils which affects family. Man under influence of intoxication and due to addiction commits cruelty on wife and children, stay away from earning opportunities and develop habits which are antisocial and unlawful.

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Rosa Parks was an __________.

  1. Indian

  2. American

  3. African

  4. African-American
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 – 2005) was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955, that reverberated throughout the United States. Rosa Parks was born to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. In addition to African ancestry, one of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave.

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One defiant act of Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, started the __________.

  1. Civil Rights Movement

  2. Suffrage Movement

  3. Chipko Movement

  4. None of these
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Civil Rights are the Rights which ensures the participation of a person in social affairs. Civil Right Movement was started in the USA for enforcing the Civil Rights for African-American.
Rosa Parks was an American Civil Rights Activist who is famously known for Montgomery Bus Boycott, where one night returning from work she refused to give up her seat for a  white person. This Act of Rosa Parks sparked the beginning of a movement which resulted in recognition of civil rights to African-Americans.
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Which movement was started in China to protest against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles?

  1. Chinese democracy movement

  2. May fourth movement

  3. The Temperance movement

  4. Civil Disobedience movement
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Explanation

The May Fourth Movement of 1919 was a direct response to the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred German concessions in China to Japan rather than returning them to Chinese control.

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Which of the following organizations, born in the 1930s, focused on organizing unskilled workers?

  1. Congress of Industrial Organizations

  2. Knights of Labor

  3. Industrial Workers of the World

  4. American Federation of Labor

  5. Communist Party
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Explanation

Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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The most significant change in voting patterns in the 1930s was the _________________.

  1. decrease in the percentage of women who voted.

  2. shift among African American voters from the Republican to the Democratic Party.

  3. large percentage of voters registered to the Communist Party in presidential elections.

  4. overall decrease in the number of people who voted at all.

  5. large number of recent immigrants who registered with the Republican Party.
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Explanation

During the 1930s, African American voters shifted significantly from the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, to the Democratic Party due to the New Deal policies.

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The one who led civil-rights movement in US from 1954 to 1968 was ________________.

  1. Peter Norman

  2. Jessy Owen

  3. Martin Luther King Jr

  4. John Carlos
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a renowned civil rights activist who led the civil rights movement in US for Blacks and Africans who did not have the rights that Americans already enjoyed. The Movement began expressly with the Montgomery Bus Incident when one local leader Rosa Parks who is African refused to give up her seat for white American. Martin Luther King led all the major movements including civil disobedience, non- violent protests, sit ins etc. He continued to do so  until he was assassinated in 1968.

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The primary objective of Black Power Movement was to eliminate ______________.

  1. Caste discrimination

  2. Gender inequality.

  3. Racial discrimination.

  4. Economic inequalities
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Black Power Movement is the movement that emphasized of the elimination of the racial discrimination against African-Americans and formation of Political and social Institutions of Blacks to have adequate representation without which non-discrimination would be futile. It emerged out of the Civil Rights Movement in the US.

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In the context of popular struggles and movements, the term 'mobilization' implies _____________.

  1. Act of assembling for confrontation or common goal

  2. Peaceful demonstration

  3. Assembling of facts

  4. Alliance of political parties
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Mobilisation in the context of popular struggle and movement implies alliance of political parties or organisations to give voice to the demands of public and infusing recognition in their voice. The example of mobilisation can be seen during the popular struggle for restoration of democracy in Nepal where All major political parties formed Seven Party Alliance (SPA).

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A crucial factor for any movement's existence is ________________.

  1. Political stand and ideology.

  2. Support of political parties

  3. Finances

  4. Area of influence
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Movement begins when mass public conscience realise that they are being deprived or not treated fairly or circumstances such exists that need to be changed or unchanged. Any movement's success depends upon the area of influence , the mass participation without which it would confine and cannot raise the demand in order to be fulfilled. This is why movements have loose organisations and informal decision making process. 

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People's organizations which undertakes activities to promote their interest to their view point are  ________________.

  1. Interest groups

  2. Pressure groups

  3. Sectional interest groups

  4. Peoples movement
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Explanation
There are many indirect ways in which people can get governments to listen to their demands or their points of view. They could do so by forming an organisation and undertaking activities to promote their interests or their viewpoints. These are called interest groups. Sometimes people decide to act together without forming organisations. Hence, Option A is correct. The rest of the groups do not adhere to the said definition and do not promote general interest, but specific, hence, incorrect. 
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The Black Power Movement emerged in ___________.

  1. 1964

  2. 1965

  3. 1966

  4. 1962
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Black Power Movement emerged out of the civil rights movement in the United States (US). In the year 1966, this movement became mainstream. This movement emphasized racial pride, socio-economic empowerment and creating political, cultural institution for black people in the US. The Black Panther Party was an influential organization that was created from the Black Power Movement.