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Vasco De Gama was a portuguese explorer, began exploring the east African coast, and wanted to open a direct trading route to Asia.
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The British wanted to control trade and wanted british economic intrest.
India ruling the Mughal dynasty had kept the european trade in allignment. -
Small farms covered England which ment rich landowners started buying much of the and that village farmers once worked in.
They improved farming methods which then lead to the agriculture revolution. -
The Mughal Empire was collapsing, so many small states with rulers or maharaja's broke away from Mughal control.
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Robert Clive led east company troops in a victory against the Indian forces which was known as Battle of Plassey
the east India company from 1757 until 1858 was leading power in india. -
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The British government took command of India.
A cabinet minister in London controlled the policy while the British govenor-general in India followed the governments orders. -
India had two groups the Indian National Congress which was made up by the Hindus, and the Muslim league which consisted of Muslims.
They had many differences but they worked toward the goal of independence from the British. -
The Muslim leauge was an orginization in India to protect Muslim intrest.
The leader of the Muslim league was Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The Muslims said that it would never accept Indian independence if a Hindu-dominated party ruled it. -
The laws let the govenment jail any protestors that stood in their way without a trial for up to two years.
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The main goal was to protest the Rowlatt Acts.
Amritsar is a major city in the Punjab.
Their intension of protesting was to fast and pray and listen to different speeches on a political view.
Indians were unaware that the city was banned from public meeting so there were shootings in the court yard for ten mins and hundreds were killed and and wounded.
*angered millions of indians and turned on their backs on the British -
The British failed to punish the officers who were responsible for the Amritsar Massacre so Ghandhi followed the policy of noncooperation with the British and urged the INC to follow as well.
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One stragety was to boycott which ment refusing to pay British taxes, to buy British goods,attend government schools or vote in elections.
Thats caused the British alot of struggle on trains on over crowded jail cells, which ended up as riots. -
indians had to buy salt from the british and only the british and also pay a tax on it,so Gandhi and his follwers walked 240 miles to seacoast, and started making their own salt by letting the waer evaporate creating salt.
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The Hindus and the Muslims feared of the future and who would rule it.
There were more Hindus than Muslims which made Muslims believe that the hindus would control India if they one their independence. -
the roit between these two groups broke out in many cities which lasted for four day killing 5,000 and injuirng 15,000
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Partition is the division between Hindus and Muslims into different regions in India.
Northwest and eastern were mostly Muslims. -
India had freedom and had to choose where they wanted to go,it was very complicated.
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Gandhi went to the capital of india to ask for equality between the muslims and the hindus, while a hindu extremist who thought ghandi was over protective of muslims shot ghandi and he fell to the ground.
