Chapter 14.4 Nationalsim in India and Southwest Asia

Civil disobedience

A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

He emerged as India's leader after the Amritsar Massacre. He used the policy of civil disobedience, to win India's independence.

Rowlatt Acts

Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trial for as long as two years.

Mustafa Kemal

Led revolutionaries to overthrow the last Ottoman sultan and after became the president of Turkey.

Salt March

Passive resistance campaign of Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt.

Amritsar Massacre

To protest the Rowlatt Act, Indians gathered in Amritsar, where British troops fired on the crowd killing several hundred. This sparked further protests.