Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Legacy
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What did Gandhi use to fight for civil rights while in South Africa?

  • Violent protests
  • Nonviolent resistance (correct)
  • Diplomatic negotiations
  • Political lobbying
  • What did Gandhi do in 1947 to try to stop religious violence?

  • He organized a march
  • He declared a fast
  • He visited the affected areas (correct)
  • He wrote a letter
  • How did Gandhi identify himself with the Indian rural poor?

  • He adopted the traditional Indian clothing of a dhoti and hand-spun yarn (correct)
  • He started a law practice in India
  • He went on hunger strikes
  • He moved to South Africa
  • Study Notes

    • Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
    • He trained as a lawyer and started his own law practice in India but was unsuccessful.
    • In 1893, Gandhi moved to South Africa to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
    • He lived in South Africa for 21 years and during this time he used nonviolent resistance to fight for civil rights.
    • In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and soon became the leader 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 traditional Indian clothing of a dhoti and hand-spun yarn as a sign of identification with the Indian rural poor.
    • Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes over the years as a form of political protest.
    • In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
    • Gandhi did not celebrate independence and instead visited the affected areas to try to stop religious violence.
    • In the months following independence, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to pressure the government to pay Pakistan some debt owed to India.
    • Gandhi died on January 30, 1948 at the age of 80.

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