1. Warm Up # 4
What is the most effective way to persuade someone to do something that you want?

2. Gandhi
Workbook pg. 7

3. Essential Question
What were the ideas/beliefs that fueled the Indian Independence Movement?

4. Life Under Colonial Rule
India was ruled first by British East India Company, then by the British Government
Profit was the goal: Silk, Salt, Wheat, Spices
Discrimination
Disrespected Hindu culture
Direct Rule
Some improvements: roads, trains, schools, healthcare

5. British Colonial Map

6. WWI changes the Game
Great Britain weakened by the conflict and cannot maintain colonial grip
Indian soldiers needed to fight
Limited self government granted

7. Here Comes Gandhi Gandhi’s Background
From an upper class Indian family
Goes to England to study law
Treated well and sea s tolerant society
Lives in South Africa
Practices law there
Experiences segregation (Apartheid) and oppression by British
Becomes an advocate for Indians there
Develops and practices peaceful resistance plan
1915 Mohandas K. Gandhi becomes active in the INC (Indian National Congress)

8. Satyagraha Method of peaceful protest marked by self- suffering
Means “soul force”
Combines Hindu, Christian, and secular ideas.
“Satyagraha… is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. When I refuse to da a thing that is repugnant to my conscience I use Satyagraha… If by using violence I force the Government to repeal a law, I am employing what may be termed as body-force. If I do not obey the law and accept the penalty for its breach, I use soul force. It involves a sacrifice of self.”

9. Satyagraha as a Means for Achieving Independence
Class Docs PG
Workbook pg. 9

10. Satyagraha 1. # Paragraphs Read pg. 20, answer #’s 1-5
Directions
Vocab
1. # Paragraphs
Read pg. 20, answer #’s 1-5
2.Choose 3 laws from pg. 21, translate them into modern day language.
Ascetic
Severe, Self Discipline, strict
Austerities.
Extreme Plainness, simple life