Civil disobedience : Gandhi.

Introduction

In this webquest you will learn about civil disobedience.

What is it ? Where it came from ?

We are going to focus on the salt march led by Gandhi.

Who is Gandhi ? What did he fight for ?

Task

You are going to analyze some documents which are going to allow you to understand what is the civil disobedience, which is Gandhi and which are the consequences of the salt march.

You need to search ( through the links ) the elements who helped you to answer questions.

Process

Civil disobedience

Where that comes from ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience#Etymology

1) Henry David Thoreau's ..... essay "Resistance to Civil Government" was eventually renamed ".............................................." After his landmark lectures were published in 1866, the term began to appear in numerous sermons and lectures relating to ......... and the.................... Thus, by the time Thoreau's lectures were first published under the title "................................," in ........, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.

 

2)Where did Thoreau write Civil Disobedience?

  • Massachusetts

  • Georgia

  • England

  • New York

Gandhi

https://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898

3)When he was born ? Who is it ?

...........................................................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................................................

Salt March

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhi-leads-civil-disobedience

4) On......................................, Indian independence leader ........................ begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the...............monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil........................ yet against British rule in .............

5)Why Gandhi organize this walking ?

........................................................................................................................................................................

6)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March

  How much were Indians at the beginning of the walking?

  • 1.000
  • 85
  • 5
  • 78

7)To what city went their walking ?

..........................................................................................................................................................................

8)how long was the salt march ?

..........................................................................................................................................................................

 

 

Evaluation

You are going to be evalualed on your capacities to look for information from documents.

Here is the scale of the questions:

1) 2pts

2) 2pt

3) 4pts

4) 2pts

5) 4pts

6) 2pt

7) 2pt

8) 2pt

 

Conclusion

Gandhi is thus a very important character who in led these fights without violence, that we call the civil disobedience. Thanks to the salt march of april 1930, thousands of Indians we show ability of courage and especially no violence for removed the tax on the salt.

This salt march was only a part of the puzzle to lead its country until the independence. Gandhi was imprisoned a lot during these years by fights for the civil disobedience and independence of India.

Gandhi was murdered in New Delhi on January 30th, 1948 by Nathuram Godse, a nationalist Indian.

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