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TermVocabulary Passive Resistance Civil Disobedience

Essential Question

What strategies did Gandhi use to help win independence for India?

What did India want?

The movement for independence began 1885 with the formation of the INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

At first, India just wanted self-government

But eventually, India wanted to be free from British rule

Who led the independence movement?

MOHANDAS GANDHI stepped forward to lead India’s movement for independence

Gandhi called for PASSIVE RESISTANCE

Declaring a law unjust

Refusing to follow it

Suffering the consequences

How did Gandhi protest the British?Gandhi and his followers defied British rule through peaceful protests

Gandhi called this process SATYAGRAHA, Hindu for

truth holding firm

Other people, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would practice this behavior

What did Gandhi go through?

Gandhi suffered for his cause by:

Leading the Salt March in 1930 to protest British taxes

Enduring life-threatening hunger strikes

Going to jail

Who supported Gandhi?

Thousands of people joined with Gandhi….

…even the PARIAHS that were usually known as the “untouchables”

lowest social class in India

Gandhi renamed these people the HARIJAN

“Children of God”

How did the British respond?

The British slowly gave in to the demands of the Indian people…

…such as allowing Indians to run for local offices

Higher offices still remained out of their reach

When did independence come?After World War II, the independence

movement grew stronger

1947 – Independence finally comes to India

Essential Question

What strategies did Gandhi use to help win independence for India?

CHARACTER = GANDHI