INDIA SEEKS SELF RULE

Unit 5 Chapter 16.3

Big Idea: Mohandas Gandhi and the Congress party led the drive for independence in India

OBJECTIVES

Trace factors that sparked India’s independence movement after WWI

Assess how Mohandas Gandhi influenced the independence movement

Interpret what the Salt March symbolized

WARM UP

What do you know about India?

HISTORY BRITISH RULE

1600 British East India Company est. trade

1857 Sepoy Rebellion Becomes direct rule

colony

IMPACT BRITISH RULE

Drawbacks Industry declines, cash crops = less

food, dependence on GB

Positives Language, railroad & telegraph

system, health care & sanitation, education, form of government

ACTIVITY-

Amritsar massacre reading? Then have the class create news headlines, British and Indian

ACTIVITY- GANDHI

Using your textbook, answer the questions below to complete the profile of Mohandas Gandhi.

GANDHI

“Satyagraha” – Civil Disobedience

Boycotts Great Salt March (1930)

1939 “Quit India” Mvmt

No help WW2 w/o independenceClick image above to watch a

video on Gandhi!

CLOSURE

Why do you think Gandhi was able to unite Indians when earlier attempts had failed?