9Th Grade - World Literature Gandhi Movie Vocabulary

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Apartheid Laws

Back 1

a series of different laws and acts which were to help the apartheid - gov't to enforce the segregation of different craces and cement the power and dominance by the whites over others.

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Untouchables

Back 2

the former name given to a a member of a lower caste in India, whose touch was believed to defile a high-caste Hindu.

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Pass Laws

Back 3

laws designed to separate the population limit severely the movements of the non-white populace.

Front 4

Non-Violent Non-Cooperation

Back 4

resistance without fighting

Front 5

Ashram

Back 5

community, village, or the world

Front 6

Satyagraha

Back 6

a form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms.

Front 7

Caste System

Back 7

a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity.

Front 8

Miners' Strike

Back 8

when the followers of Gandhi bound together to get the other miners who were imprisoned out of jail. The followers were also put into prison.

Front 9

Tenant Farmer

Back 9

a farmer who rents his farmland and pays rent to a landlord.

Front 10

Boycott of British-Made Cloth

Back 10

Indian home-spun fabric was only worn to protest the British-made cloth.

Front 11

Cash Crops

Back 11

growing crops just to make money off them.

Front 12

Home Rule

Back 12

allowing the Indians to have a voice in running their own country.

Front 13

Salt March

Back 13

Gandhi's march to the sea to make salt from the Indian Ocean. He is protesting the law that Indian people can not make salt.

Front 14

Amritsar Massacre

Back 14

fifty british soldiers began shooting at unarmed men, women and children without warning - roughly 1000 killed.

Front 15

Partition of India

Back 15

the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of Pakistan.

Front 16

Homespun Cloth

Back 16

cloth made in India, not England

Front 17

Hindu-Muslim question

Back 17

whether or not Hindus and Muslims can coexist in a peaceful India.

Front 18

Indian Independence Act

Back 18

law that freed India from British rule.