USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When you refuse to buy goods as a form of protest is called a(n):
A
smuggling
B
strike
C
boycott
D
repeal
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

Detailed explanation-2: -To boycott means to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest; the noun boycott is the protest itself. This noun comes from the name of Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent in 19th-century Ireland who refused to reduce rents for his tenant farmers.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a boycott? A boycott is a collective and organized ostracism applied in labour, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair. The boycott was popularized by Charles Stewart Parnell during the Irish land agitation of 1880 to protest high rents and land evictions.

Detailed explanation-4: -/ˈbɔɪ.kɑːt/ to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval: People were urged to boycott the country’s products. The union called on its members to boycott the meeting. Opposing & against.

Detailed explanation-5: -an occasion when customers stop buying a particular product or stop buying from a particular company as a way of expressing strong disapproval: The threat of a possible consumer boycott of diamonds has persuaded the industry that it has to tackle the problem of human rights abuse.

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