Please do not talk at this time
April 27
HW: Chpt 14, Sec 4- up to page 456. Read and take
notes on the boxes on your Cornell notes page. Leave
room to add more later.
• Get a handout reviewing the Indian
imperialist experience
• Answer the questions on the back and
complete the Chart using the pages
listed from the book.
Cornell notes should read:
• Foundation of Congress Party and
Muslim League
• WWI
• Rowlatt Acts
• Massacre at Amritsar
• What was the nature of the Indian
complaint against British rule in India?
• What prevented Indians from gaining
their independence?
Please make a Vocabulary Word Map for the next
three Words.
Word Map For: Self Determination
1. Glossary Definition
free to live as one chooses without
permission from others
2. Examples
Versions of the Word
none
4. My Definition
5. Graphic
Name:
3. Related Words
Word Map For: Non-Violence
1. Glossary Definition
rejection of violent methods to
achieve change or govern
2. Examples
Versions of the Word
nonviolent, nonviolently
4. My Definition
5. Graphic
Name:
3. Related Words
Word Map For: Civil Disobedience
1. Glossary Definition
refusal to obey certain laws for the
purpose of changing government
policy
2. Examples
Versions of the Word
none
4. My Definition
5. Graphic
Name:
3. Related Words
Word Map For: Self Determination
1. Glossary Definition
free to live as one chooses without
permission from others
Versions of the Word
none
4. My Definition
the ability to decide what you do
with your life without being bossed
around by others
Name:
2. Examples
 American revolution
 Civil Rights Movement in US
 India becoming independent
 Israeli-Palestinian conflict
 Creation of Kosovo as
independent state
5. Graphic
3. Related Words
 freedom
 sovereignty
 civil rights
 equality
 oppression
 imperialism
Word Map For: Non-Violence
1. Glossary Definition
rejection of violent methods to
achieve change or govern
Versions of the Word
nonviolent, nonviolently
4. My Definition
To try to change something
peacefully, without hurting or
killing anyone
Name:
2. Examples
 elections, petitions, marches,
strikes
 Mahatma Ghandi
 Martin Luther King
 Free Speech Movement
 Cesar Chavez
5. Graphic
3. Related Words
 civil disobedience
 protest
 reform
 diplomacy
 revolution
 dissent
Word Map For: Civil Disobedience
1. Glossary Definition
refusal to obey certain laws for the
purpose of changing government
policy
Versions of the Word
none
4. My Definition
to break laws in order to try to
reform an aspect of government
2. Examples
 Henry David Thoreau
 Gandhi’s movement for
Indian independence
 Rosa Parks
 Tiananmen Square
5. Graphic
Name:
3. Related Words
 protest
 reform
 strike
 sit-in
 dissent
 political instability
Please do not talk at this time April 28
HW: Please read the Primary source by Gandhi and
complete APPARTS on the back of the document.
• Get out your Cornell Notes paper from
last night’s book reading.
• We will now have a lecture on some of
these topics. Please add to your notes.
The Indian National
Congress
 1885  The Indian National Congress
was founded in Bombay.
 swaraj  “independence.”
* the goal of the movement.
During WWI, Indians were promised
Independence
In fact, Self Determination was hugely popular
after the war throughout Europe.
Self-determination - Free to live as one
chooses without permission from others.
Why did Indians
want
independence?
A Matter of Civil Rights
 Indians studied in England to learn skills
needed by the English Empire.
 There, they learned about the basic
rights given to every Englishman.
 When they returned to India, they saw
that these same rights were not given to
Indians.
A Matter of Forced
Economic Dependence
 Indian factories had been
dismantled by the British to
avoid competition
 Indian purchased all
manufactured goods from
England
 The British passed laws to
force Indians to purchase
things they didn't need to
ship from England, like salt,
which could be found for free
all over India
A Matter of Ethnic Discrimination
 British people in India consider Indians
inferior.
 It is acceptable and encouraged to take
advantage of Indians
 Any perceived resistance to British rule is
brutally suppressed
The Rowlatt Acts- Laws stripping Indians of basic human
rights (after service given during WWI)
“arrest and search people and property without
warrant, detain suspects without trial, and try people
before special courts where there were no juries and
no rights of appeal”
The Amritsar Massacre Slaughter of Indian men, women
and children peacefully demonstrating against unjust laws.
Amritsar Massacre, 1919
379 dead; over 1200 wounded!
What do you think the Public Opinion of this event was?
How would that help Indians toward independence more than a riot or
uprising?
Roadblocks to Independence
 India made masses of money for the
British. The “Jewel in the Crown” was
accurate. The British had no desire to let so
much money go.
 England had carefully ensured that they
were militarily superior to the native Indians.
Any violent uprising would end the same way
the Sepoy Rebellion did.
 Indians were divided by a long history of
intolerance based on religion and ethnicity.
Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims did not trust each
other.
How will the Indians
overcome these many
serious problems?
Mohandas Gandhi finds the
answer...
Gandhi:
Educated in England he
knows about British law
and British rights.
Strongly believes that
violence is not the
answer. Indians will
lose if they kill.
Gandhi working as a lawyer
in South Africa
Develops a peaceful
method to use public
opinion against wrong
doers (British)
Practices this method in
South Africa.
Gandhi and Satyagraha
Civil Disobedience: Do not follow unjust laws.
Boycotts: Refuse to purchase British
manufactured goods
Strikes: Refuse to go to work for British
companies (like the railroad or civil service)
Non- Violence: No matter what, do not react
to anything with violence. Those who fight
with their fists can always be called criminals.
Those who refuse to raise their hand against
their enemy can only be seen as victims. Public
opinion will side with the victims.
Do not buy British salt.
Make your own.
Salt March- 1930
Making
Salt
Do not buy British
cloth. Make your own.
These events, marches,
demonstrations and so on, United the
people of India (Hindu, Muslim and
Sikh) against the British and hurt the
British economy. They also turned
international opinion against the
British.
By the end of WWII, England doesn't
have the money to maintain their
control of India, and Finally, Indians
are granted their Independence.