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100

This British law made it illegal for Indians to collect or sell their own salt, forcing them to buy expensive salt from the government.

What is the Salt Tax?

100

This Afrikaans word means "apartness" and describes the system of laws that kept racial groups separate.

What is Apartheid?

100

This Nobel Peace Prize winner started the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.

Who is Wangari Maathai?

100

This young activist stood up to the Taliban to demand that girls have the right to an education.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

100

These are the qualities, beliefs, and expressions that make a person or group who they are.

What is identity?

100

These are used in court to prove that an unfair law is unconstitutional.

What are lawsuits?

200

This 240-mile march involved 10,000 people protesting the British monopoly on salt.

What is the Salt March (or Dandi March)?

200

This is the act of taking away someone’s right to vote, which the South African government did to Black citizens.

What is disenfranchisement?

200

This type of movement starts with ordinary people in a local community rather than from government leaders.

What is a grassroots movement?

200

This term describes an image, video, or link that spreads rapidly and widely across the internet.

What is viral?

200

This term describes how different parts of identity—like race and gender—overlap.

What is intersectionality?

200

This tool involves setting meetings and making public appeals to lawmakers

What is lobbying?

300

National movements often start when an entity, such as a government or large business, exerts too much control over basic needs like salt, forming one of these.

What is a monopoly?

300

These are economic penalties applied by other countries to pressure a government to change its laws.

What are sanctions?

300

This blended movement sees a connection between the health of the environment and the rights of women.

What is eco-feminism?

300

This global movement, started by Greta Thunberg, uses digital posts to organize climate strikes.

What is Fridays for the Future?

300

Change movements use these (like flags or colors) to represent big ideas or emotions.

What are symbols (or symbolism)?

300

This term describes the way things are right now, or the existing state of affairs.

What is the status quo?

400

This term, coined by Gandhi, means "Truth-Force" and describes his philosophy of non-violent resistance.

What is Satyagraha?

400

This activist spent 27 years in prison but remained a leader of the movement against Apartheid.

Who is Nelson Mandela?

400

The act of planting a tree that then helps a family make or save money, then that money empowering women in the community, and the protection of public land that the tree helps provide is an example of this.

What is a ripple effect? 

400

Those in power may try to limit this because it can change a country’s future and exert pressure on leaders.

What is education?

400

This city is described as the "epicenter" of the LGBTQ+ movement. 

What is New York City?

400

These groups use the same tools as change movements but to stop change from happening.

What are counter-movements?

500

Gandhi described the salt monopoly as this many "curses" because it hurt village industry and taxed starving people.

What is a fourfold curse?

500

This colonial power held control in South Africa since the "Scramble for Africa" in the early 1900s.  

What is the United Kingdom (Great Britain)?

500

The way in which planting a tree can be an act of social change. 

Several possible correct answers. Teacher says...

500

On social media, this is a word or phrase preceded by #, used to identify specific topics.

What is a hashtag?

500

The reason visuals like flags, slogans, and symbols affect the acceptance of new ideas. 

Explanations may vary... teacher says...

500

The four fears that drive counter-movements.  

What are loss of control, privilege, familiarity, and perceived stability?