Biography: Mohandas Karamchand GandhiDirections: While viewing the Biography of Gandhi, answer the following question. Textbook pages 200-204 should also be used as a resource. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/q0uYJIMpYmo

1. Identify: Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah

2. How did Gandhi see his life?

3. When and where was he born?

4. How old was Gandhi when he got married?

5. At age 17, what did Gandhi do?

6. What happened on Gandhi’s first train ride in South Africa? What were the effects? Define Mahatma.

7. What does Gandhi use to resist discrimination in South Africa? What was his term for his philosophy?

8. At what age does Gandhi return to India? What year?

9. What nation colonized India?

10. What were the causes and effects of the Amritsar Massacre?

11. How does Gandhi promote self-reliance of Indians?

12. Why did Gandhi want to connect with the masses of the Indian people?

13. Politically, what did Gandhi not want to lose? What threatened this?

14. What did Gandhi do to rebel against the unjust law that prohibited Indians to make or sell salt? What was its effect?

15. What did Gandhi demand in August, 1942?

16. Why was he jailed?

17. What did the prospect of Indian independence bring to India? Effects?

18. What did Indians celebrate in August 1947? What was Gandhi’s reaction? Effects?

19. Why does Gandhi go on a hunger strike?

20. How does Gandhi’s life end? What was his last word?

21. What type of revolution freed India?