How was a strike used in independence movements?

Correct answer: As economic and political protest

The direct answer is A: a strike was used as an economic and political protest. A strike happens when workers deliberately stop working to demand change or oppose an authority. In an independence movement, stopping work can interrupt production, transport, trade or administration and therefore place pressure on the colonial government and businesses connected with it. The reasoning is: workers act together; normal economic activity slows; the authority notices the cost and public opposition; the protest communicates a political demand such as self-rule. Option A is correct because it includes both economic pressure and political opposition. Option B is wrong because a strike is not the buying or selling of enslaved people. Option C is wrong because refusing work to oppose foreign rule is not acceptance of that rule. Option D is wrong because a strike resists colonial control; it does not expand a colony. Memory cue: strike means stop work to create pressure, not support rule.