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16 Cards in this Set
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Amritsar Massacre |
Ghandi was giving a speech where he was denouncing British rule in India, when the British troops started firing on the crown, killing many. |
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Civil Disobedience |
The act of non-violently disobeying a law that you view as unjust. |
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Untouchables |
These are people who have traits that make them undesirable, such as disabilities. They are given dirty jobs that no one else wants to do. |
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Boycott |
Not wanting to to buy into a company that you think is unjust. A protest. Ex) Gandhi's weaving of clothes |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
Indian nationalist Leader who favored Non-violence. He fasted. ex) Salt March |
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Green Revolution |
After independence, the Indians worried that they were going to have a famine. Using science to grow more efficient crops to avoid a famine. Special seeds, fertilizer. Successful |
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Henry David Thoreau |
Wrote essay entitled Civil Disobedience after he was put in jail for not paying the poll tax. "When a government is unjust people should refuse to follow that law and not to participate in the evils of the world." |
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Homespun Movement |
launched by Gandhi to reduce the profits of British mercantilism called for all Indians to boycott foreign clothes and weave their own clothes |
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Salt March |
Gandhi launched a march to the sea shore to make salt and protest the British's unjust salt tax. Was thrown in jail as a result. |
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Partition of India |
The Muslims were afraid that if they stayed in India, they would be under Hindu government and therefore not treated fairly.-->Ask for a partition Pakistan is for Muslims, India for Hindus Many clashes during the migration |
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Kashmir |
Region in northern India technically part of India because the prince at the time of the partition was Hindu, but Pakistan wants it because the majority of the people are Muslim. |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
First prime minister of India |
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
First Prime Minister of Pakistan |
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Bangladesh |
Formally West Pakistan, but broke away because the government was in East Pakistan. |
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Pakistan |
technological, industrial and economically modern cities, but poor in rural places. earthquakes, typhoons, landslides, and flooding water scarcity |
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Dowery |
Money or property bought by a bride to her husband at marriage. |
