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civil disobidience
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a deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
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Amritsar Massacre
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killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlett Acts
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Congress Party
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a major national political party in India - also known as the Indian National Congress
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Muslim League
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an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests & India's Muslim's, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations.
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partition
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a division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and pakistan
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Rowlatt Act
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laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti- British protesters without trial for as long as two years
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Salt March
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a peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater
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