Indian Independence Movement

Who was part of the Indian National Congress?

• Muslim middle class

• Middle Class Indians

• Western Educated Elites

• Poor Hindu workers

What was the difference between the Muslim League and Indian National Congress?

• Muslim League wanted self-rule

• Religion

• Support for the British

• Creation of a free India

What were Indians protesting in Amritsar on April 13, 1919?

• High taxes

• Price of Salt

• Rowlett Acts and arrests of leaders

• Creation of a free India

What is Swaraj?

• British control of the territory

• Self-rule for India

• Type of cloth

• The new government

Why did Gandhi encourage Indians to spin their own cloth?

• India invented cotton clothing

• Indian cloth was better

• To rely on British textiles

• So India could be self-sufficient

What were Indians protesting with the Salt March?

• Violence of the British

• The Rowlett Acts

• Oppressive tax on Salt

• The Muslim League

What was the significance of the Salt March?

• Nonviolence protests won global support for independence

• The British massacred the marchers

• The British hated Gandhi

• Gandhi got a-Salt-ed

What was the Lahore Resolution?

• Demand for Indian Independence

• Demand that India be partitioned

• Start of the Homespun Movement

• Creation of a new nation

What did Gandhi saw in his famous "Do or Die" speech?

• Muslims will follow Hindus or die

• Indians will gain independence or die trying

• Gandhi will "Do the Dew"

• Violence is not the answer

What reason was given for Gandhi's death?

• He was a traitor to India

• He wanted to divide India

• He was tired and old

• Failed to teach nonviolence in life, maybe he could teach it with death