Question

The Civil Disobedience Movement was started with the action that _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
A. The people offered themselves to be sent to jail
B. The government was compelled to call Round Table Conference
C. The meeting was held against the Government
D. Gandhi Ji acted against salt law

Answer 1

Hint: Civil Disobedience Movement holds a very important role in the struggle of Independence of India. During this movement, people started breaking the government's certain harsh rules and regulations without resorting to aggression or aggressive opposition measures.

Complete answer:
The beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement under the leadership of Gandhi was followed by the celebration of Independence Day in 1930. It started with Gandhi's famous Dandi March.

On 12 March 1930, with 78 other members of the Ashram, Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on foot for Dandi which is a village on the western coast of India located about 385 km from Ahmedabad. On 6 April 1930, they reached Dandi and Gandhi broke the salt law there.
As it was a government monopoly, it was illegal for anyone to make salt. By picking up a handful of salt produced by the evaporation of the sea, Gandhi defied the government. The defiance of the salt law was followed by the spread of the Movement for Civil Disobedience across the world.

It became a sign of the people's defiance of the government in the first step of the civil disobedience movement, having salt spread throughout the nation.

Hence, the correct answer is option (D)

Note: Large numbers of women took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement. A unit of housewives led by Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay marched to Chowpatty in Mumbai, as the Dandi march proceeded through Gujarat (then Bombay). She declined to call off the rally and marched ahead, after being struck by a police lathi.