India Independence - SS7H3 a andb

The belief that people should be loyal to those with which they share a common history, customs, origins, and sometimes language and religion.

• boycott

• Muslim League

• Segregated

• nationalism

What happened August 15, 1947

• Israel became a nation

• When the British offered India full independence of its own nation establishing the Republic of India

• Gandhi was killed

• India's Salt March

Leader of the peaceful civil disobedience movement for Indian independence.

• Churchill

• Obama

• MLK

• Gandhi

When and why did Great Britain come to India

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

• In 1901 Great Britain came to India as missionaries to convert Hindu's to Christianity.

• in 1492, Great Britain was trying to expand their world wide power and took over India's government through a bitter war that lasted many years.

• India asked Great Britain to come to their aid in 1601, because their economy was failing and there was a bitter rivalry between Pakistan and the Indian people

At first Great Britain was only looking to do what when they came to India?

• To trade goods like spices, sugar, vanilla

• To find a short passageway to China and trade slaves

• To attain elephants for Great Britain's circuses

• They came to India for building materials from the vast rainforest

By 1760 Great Britain had gained

• only political power but never gained economic power

• nothing and were forced out by the government of India

• political and economic power over India.

• the friendship and adoration of the Indian people

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

• Indians didn't like Britain because they couldn't get married

• Great Britain took all their land and sold it to other foreign countries

• They didn't like British food and drink

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

Indians were also ________________ ___________ by the British on goods that were found in their own country.

• allotted food

• supplied heavily

• protected much

• taxed heavily

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

• National Congress in 1885 and the Muslim League in 1906.

• National Congress in 1885 and the African National Congress in 1906.

• Apartheid in 1885 and the Muslim League in 1906.

• •National Congress in 1958 and the Muslim League in 1957

After WWI, the British Parliament promised that Indians would be able to have this

• their own country

• become British citizens

• land in the Middle East

• more control of their government