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What year did Gandhi move to South Africa?
What year did Gandhi move to South Africa?
- 1891
- 1893 (correct)
- 1915
- 1948
What did Gandhi use to win support from the white population?
What did Gandhi use to win support from the white population?
- Violent protests
- Political speeches
- Nonviolent resistance (correct)
- Hunger strikes
How did Gandhi die?
How did Gandhi die?
- Natural causes
- Assassination (correct)
- Accident
- Suicide
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Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in the coastal town of Porbandar in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and began practicing in 1891, but found it difficult to make a success of his legal career in India.
- In 1893, Gandhi moved to South Africa to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
- Gandhi became involved in the struggle for civil rights in South Africa and used nonviolent resistance to win support from the white population.
- In 1915, aged 45, Gandhi returned to India and soon became the leader of the Indian National Congress, which was campaigning for independence from British rule.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for improving the conditions of the poor, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- In the months following independence, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948, while fasting in Delhi, by a Hindu nationalist.
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