Aim: How did Mohandas Gandhi lead a successful and peaceful revolution in India? L62
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Aim: How did Mohandas Gandhi lead a successful and peaceful revolution in India?L62 Do Now: Copy your vocabulary words in your glossary 1. Civil disobedience: is the active refusal to obey
certain laws of a government without resorting to violence.
2. Mohandas Gandhi: was a major political and spiritual leader of India
3. Caste System: strict social class system in Hinduism 4. Apartheid: was a system of legal racial segregation
enforced by the government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994
5. Nelson Mandela: was the first elected President of South Africa
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Sort and Discuss Activity
Directions:
• Work with your group to sort the sources at your table into Changes and Methods of Gandhi
• For each piece summarize what information you gained in your own words in the right column
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Struggle for Independence
1) India was a British colony since 1700’s2) Amristar Massacre: April 13th, 1919 British
soldiers fired on a group of peaceful, unarmed Indian protestors (379 killed and 1,100 wounded)
3) WWI*Many Indians fought in the British army in support of the Allies*They were promised more self government but after the war this never happened.
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Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar Massacre, 19191919
379 dead; over 1200 wounded!379 dead; over 1200 wounded!
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Mohandas GandhiFrom a middle class Hindu family He was later called Mahatma or “Great
Soul” Studied law in India at 19, used his
education to fight injustice against Indians in another British colony, South Africa
Gandhi believed in civil disobedience
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He wanted an end to British rule as well as changes in India to the Hindu Caste system, he urged equal rights for all Indians
Methods: boycotts, creation and weaving
of only Indian made products, non- violent methods, fasting and starvation
Salt March 1930- Gandhi marched with 75 other non violent
protestors against the British salt tax which was attempting to create a British monopoly on the sale and production of salt
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Young GandhiYoung Gandhi
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Gandhi as a Lawyer in Gandhi as a Lawyer in Johannesburg, So. AfricaJohannesburg, So. Africa
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Salt March, 1930Salt March, 1930
MakingMakingSaltSalt
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Gandhi spinning Gandhi spinning clothcloth
Indian weaving was ruined Indian weaving was ruined by the competition of by the competition of British machine-made British machine-made
textiles!textiles!
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Gandhi and His Gandhi and His Grandaughters, Grandaughters,
19471947
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Results
• Gandhi is successful!! • India is divided into two new countries in
1947– India for the Hindus – Pakistan for the Muslims
* Gandhi is assassinated in 1948 because he supported peace between the Hindus and the Muslims
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PartitionPartition!!