Class 6 civics What is Government

1. Look at these Newspaper Headlines

15. • A suffragette was a member of an activist
women's organisation in the early 20th
century who, under the banner "Votes for
Women", fought for the right to vote in
public elections in the United Kingdom.

28. • . Fill in the blanks.
• (i) The government works at different levels: at the ______ level, at
the level of the _______ and at the _________ level.
• (ii) American women got the right to vote in ________.
• (iii) In India, before Independence, only a small _________ was
allowed to vote.
• (iv) The suffragettes demanded the right to vote for all __________.
• Answer:
(i) local, state and national
(ii) 1920
(iii) minority
(iv) women

29. • 2. State True/False
• (i) In Monarchy, kings and queens do not have to explain
their actions or defend the decisions they take.
• (ii) Women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men
some years later, in 1938.
• (iii) Courts are also part of the government.
• (iv) In their earliest forms governments allowed only
women who owned property and were educated, to vote.
• Answer:
(i) True
(ii) False
(iii) True
(iv) False

32. Answer the following questions
• Q1. Write some examples of institutions that
are part of the government.
• Answer: Some examples of institutions that
are part of the government: The Supreme
Court, The Indian Railways and Bharat
Petroleum.

33. • Q2.
What was the suffrage movement? What did it accomplish?
Answer: All over Europe and 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 right to vote. 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.

34. • Q3.Name two essential features of a democratic
government.
• Answer: Two essential features of a democratic
government are:
• In a democracy, it is the people who give the
government power to make decisions and
enforce laws. They do this through elections in
which they vote for particular persons and elect
them.
• In a democracy the government has to explain its
actions and defend its decisions to the people.

35. Q4.