Chapter 14 Section 4
Civil Disobedience
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.
Salt march
A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt form evaporated seawater.
Amritsar Massacre
Killing British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts.
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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Leader of the independence movement.
Mustafa Kemal
Turkish commander that led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greek and their British backers.