UNIT 4.5

Question 1

What are Interest Groups?

Answer 1

Organized to represent and advocate for a specific interest or policy issue

Examples include Educational Workers Union and Chinese Women’s Federation.

Question 2

What do Social Movements represent?

Answer 2

Multiple groups and individuals advocating for broad social change

Example: Black Lives Matter.

Question 3

How do grassroots social movements operate?

Answer 3

Exert their power up from the local level to the regional, national, or international level.

Question 4

What triggered the Zapatistas or Chiapas uprising in Mexico?

Answer 4

Response to socioeconomic inequality and the negative impact of NAFTA.

Question 5

What characterizes Nigeria’s social movements?

Answer 5

Often militant.

Question 6

What are the two notable movements in Nigeria advocating for ethnic minority rights?

Answer 6

• Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
• Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)

Question 7

What does the Boko Haram movement aim to establish?

Answer 7

An Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

Question 8

What type of protests are associated with anti-war movements in Russia?

Answer 8

Protests against Ukrainian intervention.

Question 9

What movement in Russia protested against nuclear facilities?

Answer 9

Anti-nuclear movement after Chernobyl.

Question 10

What was the Green Movement in Iran a response to?

Answer 10

Corruption in the 2009 election.