USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Disobeying in a peaceful way to make a point is called ____ Examples of this are the Boston Tea Party, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau
A
Lexington and Concord
B
Intolerable Acts
C
Abigail Adams
D
civil disobedience
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -From the Boston Tea Party to Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March, and from suffragists’ illegally casting their ballots to whites-only lunch counter sit-ins, civil disobedience has often played a crucial role in bending the proverbial arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Detailed explanation-2: -In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King, Jr. to Fellow Clergymen. April 16, 1963.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: A Definition Civil disobedience is both a political tactic and the basis of movements that advocate social change. It is a nonviolent action engaged in by an individual who refuses to obey a law for moral or philosophical reasons.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thoreau proclaimed that “under a government that imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison.” Gandhi and King would go to jail for much longer terms and willingly accept the punishment for breaking the law.

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