General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on a group of protesters having a meeting in jallianwala bagh, a garden in Amritsar. There was a massive crowd, consisting of women, children, babies and old men. General Dyer and his men had all the exits covered which lead to everyone scrambling around trying to find somewhere safe. This itself caused deaths by people falling and being trampled on by the hundreds of people running for their lives. General Dyer and his men shot for 15 minutes and they only stopped because they ran out of ammunition. They shot where the crowd was thickest. About 800 people were killed and a lot more were injured. General Dyer estimated there to be about 5,000 Indians but still continued with his shootings in attempt …show more content…
After the British military open fired at a group of 5,000 Indians, Gandhi still believed to answer back with violence was wrong. The Amritsar Massacre lead to Gandhi wanted nothing less than full independence from Britain, but he would achieve this without the use of violence. Gandhi began one of many of his civil disobedient acts. To answer back without violence, Gandhi decided to gather up as many Indians as possible and have them all burn their British made cloth. Many Indian women lost their jobs as spinners, weavers and tailors due to the British machinery. The cloth was mainly coming from Manchester and Leeds. To the Indians, cloth was considered to be a symbol of their country and now British government is taking that away. Gandhi and many more Indians all gathered together to burn all their British cloth and decided to only use homespun cloth. Throughout the film, we constantly see Gandhi spinning his own cloth to create his own clothes. It is these non-violent protests, which really make a difference to …show more content…
He would lead a group to march down to the beach of a town called Dandi. There, he and his followers began to make salt from the sea water. This is an act of civil disobedience because Britain had enacted a salt act, which prohibited the creation of salt. As Gandhi and his followers continued to make salt illegally, the police began to arrive. The police took Gandhi away to jail for this act of resilience. Maulana Azad spoke up for Gandhi after he was taken away and told the rest of his followers that they will not react with violence and instead teach everyone a lesson. This resulted in the men getting beat with sticks by the guards and police and they did not fight back or even attempt to defend themselves, because “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Eventually Gandhi was released from prison and was right back trying to improve India. Gandhi gave everything he had to help India. No matter how many hardships he faced, he never gave
Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he didn’t believe in segregation and didn’t follow the British’s rules for Indians. When coming back from prison in 1859, things changed in India. The people if India were forced to mimic the English on how they dressed, copy their manner and accept their standards of beauty. When hearing this, Gandhi didn’t accept it and started his movement. According to the background document,” he shed the cloths that made him look like a British lawyer and dressed in a poor man’s traditional loincloth.”(Background document) By do...
In India, a reformer named Gandhi lead his followers across the country to protest the British salt restrictions. These restrictions prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, which was very important to Indian cuisine. Indians were forced to purchase from the British who placed a tax on salt. To help his people, Gandhi resisted the British salt policies and started a civil disobedience. When Gandhi and his followers accomplished their travels, they planned on making salt from seawater. Gandhi and his people's dedication to resistance spread across India. In a result, many got arrested including Gandhi himself. Although in prison, the resistance still fought on. This resistance easily helped grant India’s
The Boston Massacre was an incident on King street where 5 male civilians were killed by British Army soldiers. The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770. The colonists were at fault. The colonists threw snowballs with rocks inside of them. The colonists caused war by using snowballs as an weapon to hit the British soldiers with. The outcome of the colonists actions caused 5 males to get shot and 6 other injured. A total of 11 civilians were hurt. Not all 5 males died on sight though. Some of the civilians died because other illnesses plus the gunshot wound.
March 5, 1770, the day it all happened...The day the Boston Massacre happened. The day the colonists and soldiers decided they would attack each other. No one to this day really knows who’s fault it was we just know who was blamed for it all. I believe it was the colonists fault, They did everything that would make the british soldiers fire. It was not an accident.
The American colonies are justified to be free and independent of British rule. The British had denied life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. By killing many innocent people, the British denied life. By keeping colonists under their control, the British denied liberty. By taxing, the British denied happiness. The colonists had initially left Great Britain to have freedom, but the British ignored that. The Colonists felt that Great Britain was taxing them too much and that the taxes were too high. The Colonists didn’t feel as though the British were treating them fairly. They were still a part of Great Britain when they left, so they should have been treated the same way British citizens who didn’t leave were treated. Instead, they were taxed differently, they were treated differently, and they didn’t like that. They felt that the British thought that the colonists were below them, they thought that the British wouldn’t listen.
Imagine being in a crowd, where people are throwing rocks and screaming. Then you hear gunshots, and everything stays still, there it is the Boston Massacre. On March 5th, 1770, the Bloody Massacre also known as the Boston Massacre occurred killing five colonists. From the events that lead up to the Boston Massacre, to the actual event occurring, and what happened after is how it all came about.
Under British rule in India, the British were harshly oppressive and only interested in exploiting products from India for their own use, causing many Indians to become extremely poor. They became so oppressed they were on the verge of violent civil disobedience, when Gandhi appeared to negotiate with the British threw non-violent tactics such as sit-ins and hunger strikes. The people were supportive on Gandhi and were set to become violent if anything happened to him. Things were resolved without violence.
Gandhi made use of nonviolent and passive resistance through non-cooperation as his weapon of choice in the conflict against the British. The butchery of civilians by British military personnel resulted in increased public anger and acts of violence. Mahatma Gandhi criticized both the activities of the British Government and the revenge of the butchery from the Indians. He extended consolation to the British victims and denounced the riots. Initially, his party was opposed to his declaration.
Gandhi’s implementation for the Salt March was the result of British colonization of India, which had caused a change in the lifestyle of the Indians. In 1975 when the East India Company established manufacturing monopolies, which assisted the British to exercise their powers over the salt facilities in India by applying salt taxes. As the British occupied the salt works, the Indian population became deprived of one of the most important resources. Thus, the Indians in nation began to fall apart, because the strict British ruling restricted the Indians to perform against the salt taxes. The Salt March was a way that Gandhi sought to inspire a strong uniformity in the minds of the many. These Indians soon adapted to Gandhi’s nonviolent belief and became known as the satyagrahis, w...
According to the video presented by Margaret Heffernan willful blindness refers to those issues that we should know, we might know, but we choose to somehow ignore. As if our decision was "not to know the bad things that are happening". Willful blindness is present in almost every aspect of our lives. To a certain extent it has its logic and I include myself in it. Sometimes, I prefer not to hear the bad news even though I know they are "there". If bringing to light something that bothers more than facing it, is it worth doing it? Surely we all have things to say about what is being done wrong in our working area. But, we often decide to shut up. In my case, I am afraid even of finding something that is not favorable to me.
He and his wife form a sort of commune of purity. They live off of the land entirely. During one scene, they ask all of Gandhi’s followers to burn all of their clothes that were made in Britain and wear only what they can make themselves. Gandhi practices this for the rest of his life, usually wearing just a loincloth.
One protest he lead the Salt March. A campaign which struck a decisive blow against British imperialism .This march was to get freedom from under British rule. The Salt Act made India not be able to buy or produce salt so India had to get their salt from the British. The salt march was a march to the sea where Gandhi scooped a handful of salt from the sea because it was from nature so they can use it without permission or tax from the british.
History of mankind is a mess. When you learn more about it, you will realize how lucky we are to live here in this era. When I say history, I am talking about the war and the human thirst of conquering the other's land. Humans were never happy with what they have. Those who were in power wanted to make their borders bigger and extend their power to larger areas.
Gandhi was pissed and so he withdrew from public life once again. Just them in 1935 the British gave the Indians a great amount of rights but they were not happy.
(Bio.com.) As a result, the British imprisoned more than 60,000 people. A year later, Gandhi accepted a truce and called off the civil disobedience movement. (“Gandhi, Mahatma”)