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True or false: Gandhi died on October 2nd, 1869
True or false: Gandhi died on October 2nd, 1869
False (B)
True or false: Gandhi was born in South Africa
True or false: Gandhi was born in South Africa
False (B)
True or false: Gandhi's campaigns for civil rights in South Africa included expanding women's rights
True or false: Gandhi's campaigns for civil rights in South Africa included expanding women's rights
True (A)
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869, in the coastal town of Porbandar, Gujarat, India.
- He was educated at the Inner Temple in London, and became a barrister at the age of 22.
- Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
- He lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he campaigned for civil rights and helped to start the Indian National Congress.
- In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and soon assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted the simple clothing and lifestyle of the Indian rural poor as a mark of identification with Indias poor.
- Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes in the years following independence in order to pressure the Indian government to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- Gandhi died on January 30th, 1948, in Delhi, India.
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