Indian Independence and Gandhi

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What country ruled over colonial India?

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Britain

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What is nationalism?

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loyalty to a group based on common history, culture, and/or religion

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When and why did Great Britain come to India?

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In the 1601, Great Britain came to India through the East India Trading Company to set up trading forts.

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Under British rule Indians began to resent being ruled by a foreign government because

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Of inequality and they were treated unfairly and treated as second-hand citizens

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What were the first two groups that worked for the rights of Indians?

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National Congress in 1885 and the Muslim League in 1906.

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Mohandas studied this in England: Psychology, law, medicine, teaching

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law

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Gandhi's first experience with discrimination in S. Africa happens on the....

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train

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Where did the shooting of a large group of Indians by British soldiers in 1919 happen?

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Temple of Amritsar

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What type of protests did Gandhi use in his fight for Indian independence?

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non-violent

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Gandhi developed what he called a system of _______________________ _____________________and believed that it would make the world recognize the injustice in India and force change without using violence

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civil disobedience