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What was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's occupation?
What was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's occupation?
- Teacher
- Doctor
- Engineer
- Lawyer (correct)
What method did Gandhi use to lead India's campaign for independence from British rule?
What method did Gandhi use to lead India's campaign for independence from British rule?
- Nonviolent resistance (correct)
- Peaceful negotiations
- Violent resistance
- Military intervention
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
- South Africa (correct)
- United States
- India
- United Kingdom
What did Gandhi lead nationwide campaigns for in India?
What did Gandhi lead nationwide campaigns for in India?
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What did Gandhi do to challenge the British-imposed salt tax in India?
What did Gandhi do to challenge the British-imposed salt tax in India?
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Study Notes
- 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 was born in 1869 and died in 1948.
- He lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- In 1915, he returned to India and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- He adopted the short dhoti as a mark of identification with India's rural poor and lived in a self-sufficient residential community.
- Gandhi led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942.
- Britain granted independence to India in 1947, but the country was partitioned into two dominions.
- Gandhi attempted to alleviate distress caused by religious violence and undertook several hunger strikes to stop it.
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