What is Government? - Worksheets

 CBSE Worksheet 01

Ch-22 What is Government?

  1. In India, before Independence, only a small minority was allowed to vote. Several people including ________ were shocked at the unfairness of this practice.
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Rajendra Prasad
    4. B.R.Ambedkar
  2. According to Gandhiji’s Young India, ________ should be given the right to vote.
    1. all men
    2. all unemployed
    3. all adults
    4. all women
  3. Which of the following is not an institution of Government?
    1. Supreme court
    2. Indian Railway
    3. Reliance
    4. Bharat Petroleum
  4. Which of the following false regarding government?
    1. When there are natural disasters like the tsunami or an earthquake it is the government that mainly organizes aid and assistance for the affected people
    2. If there is a dispute or if someone has committed crime courts to take the appropriate action. Courts are also part of the government
    3. It is not responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities
    4. It protects the boundaries of the country and maintaining peaceful relations with other countries
  5. American women got the right to vote in ________.
    1. Europe
    2. Australia
    3. UK
    4. 1920
  6. Match the following:
    Column AColumn B
    (i) Literate(a) Using the system plan forcefully
    (ii) Monarchy(b) something received through hard work and skill
    (iii) Achievement(c) Countries ruled by king and Queens
    (iv) Implementing(d) A person who is educated
  7. Fill in the blanks:
    1. Saudi Arabia has ________ form of government.
    2. We have different types of ________ all over the world which govern a country.
    3. The ________ demanded the right to vote for all women.
    4. The government works at different levels that are at the local level, at the level of the state and at the ________ level.
  8. State true or false:
    1. Government is necessary for parliament.
    2. Women had to wage a long struggle for getting the right to vote.
    3. In Representative Democracies, people choose their representatives through an election process.
    4. Gandhiji wrote the journal ‘Young India’
  9. Define suffrage movement.
  10. What is Monarchy?
  11. What was the status of women and poor in the early times?
  12. Why do you think the government needs to make rules for everyone in the form of laws?
  13. What do you understand by the word 'government'? List five ways in which you think the government affects your daily life.
  14. How women were given equal importance to men?

CBSE Worksheet 01
Ch-22 What is Government?

Solution

  1. (a) Mahatma Gandhi
    Explanation: In India, before Independence, only a small minority was allowed to vote and they, therefore, came together to determine the fate of the majority. Several people including Gandhiji were shocked at the unfairness of this practice and demanded that all adults have the right to vote. This is known as the universal adult franchise.
  2. (c) all adults
    Explanation: According to Gandhiji’s Young India, all adults should be given the right to vote.
  3. (c) Reliance
    Explanation: Because this is owned by a private group. The CEO of this group is Mukesh Ambani.
  4. (c) It is not responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities.
    Explanation: It is responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities.
  5. (d) 1920
    Explanation: Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women's suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means the right to vote. After many suffragettes were imprisoned and went & on hunger strike the US government has given a right to vote to women in 1920.
  6. (i) - (d), (ii) - (c), (iii) - (b), (iv) - (a).
    1. Monarchial
    2. Government
    3. Suffragettes
    4. national
    1. False, The Parliament is an individual body which does not need a government to run itself.
    2. True
    3. True
    4. True
  9. Suffrage movement is the movement according to which voting rights were given to women.
  10. The monarch (king or queen) has the power to make decisions and run the government. The monarch may have a small group of people to discuss matters with but the final decision-making power remains with the monarch. Unlike in a democracy, kings and queens do not have to explain their actions or defend the decisions they take.
  11. In the earliest times, Only men who owned property were educated and were allowed to vote. This meant that the Government did not allow women and the poor to participate in the election. They were not allowed for Education and Right to vote. The country was governed by the rules and regulations that these few men made.
  12. Laws are rules that bind all people living in a community. Laws protect our general safety, and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people, by organisations and by the government itself. We have laws to help provide for our general safety. These exist at the local, state and national levels.
  13. The system by which a state or community is governed is called the government. Five ways in which the government affects our daily life are as follows:
    1. Government ensures a proper supply of drinking water.
    2. Government ensures a proper supply of electricity.
    3. Government makes schools so that most of the children can study. The government also regulates the functioning of private schools.
    4. Government makes hospitals which treat patients either free of cost or at a nominal cost.
    5. In the case, of natural calamity, the government provides relief to affected people.
  14. Nowhere in the world have governments willingly shared power. All over Europe and the USA, women and the poor have had to fight for participation in government. Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women's suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means a right to vote. During the War, many men were away fighting, and because of this women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men's work. Many women began organising and managing different kinds of work. When people saw this they began to wonder why they had created so many unfair stereotypes about women and what they were capable of doing. So women began to be seen as being equally capable of making decisions. The suffragettes demanded the right to vote for all women and to get their demands heard they chained themselves to railings in public places. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes and they had to be fed by force. American women got the right to vote in 1920 while women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men some years later, in 1928.