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Discovery Education
South Asia Unit- Two Videos:
Eureka: The India File: Struggle for Freedom – 15 minutes
Discovering History: Mohandas Gandhi- 6 minutes
Eureka: The India File: Struggle for Freedom
Segment: Centralized India
1. Today, what do all of these very different millions of people do?
2. Four Hundred years ago, how was India different?
3. What did European merchants begin to buy when they sailed into Indian ports?
4. Over the next 100 years, was the British trade prosperous for the British?
Explain.
5. Gradually, what did the British do?
Segment: Divided India
6. In 1877 Queen Victoria was proclaimed__________________________?
7. Describe some of jobs and accomplishments of British that came to India?
8. List the reasons why many Indians didn’t like how the British ran the country?
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9. What else happened to make life for Indians even harder?
10. Where they’re uprising and protest against British rule?
11. What happened to the leaders of the protests or uprisings?
12. What happened on the April 13, 1919?
13. What did the local authorities of Amristar establish because of the
demonstrations?
14. Did people adhere to the ban?
15. Was the crowed armed with weapons?
16. Who was the general of the British Army unit?
17. How many people were killed in the massacre?
18. What actions did many Indians take after this massacre?
19. What did people in Britain think about this massacre?
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Segment: Mahatma Gandhi
20. What career did Gandhi have as a young man?
21. At the age of 42 when he returned to India, what shocked him about Indian
villages?
22. Why did Gandhi dress in a simple fashion?
23. How did Gandhi believe people should fight against injustice?
24. When Gandhi was 61, what campaign did he start? Explain.
25. Was it legal or illegal for people of India to gather salt from the salt flats and
beaches?
26. What happened when Gandhi asked the governor general to change the Salt Law?
27. What did Gandhi declare? Explain what he and his follows did?
28. Did the arrest stop people from gathering salt throughout India?
29. Was there any violence committed by the Indians? By the British government?
Segment: Independence
30. In 1931 what did several Indian leaders sail to London to discuss?
31. Was the mission a success? How long did it last?
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32. How many more years of talks and protests between Indian and Britain?
33. What was going on in Europe at this time?
34. When did the British decide to leave India?
35. When did India become an independent state?
36. How as India divided when it became independent?
37. What was Pakistan established as?
38. India was created as a country of no ____________religion.
39. Gandhi wanted what for al of India?
40. Did everyone agree with Gandhi’s ideas?
41. What happened 5 months after Independence?
42. Who was behind the crime? Why?
43. What was Gandhi called?
44. How many attended his funeral?
Segment: India Today
45. What would Gandhi find good about India today?
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2nd Video- linked on my website
Discovering History: Mohandas Gandhi- 6 minutes
Take notes below on the significant facts and achievements of Mohandas Gandhi.
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