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Gandhi employed ______ resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Gandhi employed ______ resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
nonviolent
Gandhi challenged the British-imposed ______ tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930.
Gandhi challenged the British-imposed ______ tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930.
salt
Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and ______ across the world.
Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and ______ across the world.
freedom
Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National ______ in 1921.
Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National ______ in 1921.
He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving ______-rule.
He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving ______-rule.
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- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- He was born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, India.
- Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22.
- He first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in South Africa, where he lived for 21 years.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
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