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This incident happened when British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in Amritsar. They killed hundreds of people, and wounded even more.
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A large group of British protesters had violent fight with the police, which ended up with the protesters setting fire to the police station, and killing everyone inside.
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The Swaraj Party was a political party that was formed in India. They fought for a strong self-government and wanted more political freedom for the Indians. The two most important leaders were Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru.
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The Kakori Revolution was a train robbery, that was organized by the Hindustan Republican Association. They wanted to get money and weapons to carry out activited for the British.
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On this trip he planned to go throught Sri Lanka, and end up in Colombo. He traveled all across the island to deliever speaches, to pray, and spoke with people of many different religions.
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He started a civil disobedience march down to the sea to protest the tax the British put on their salt. This was his boldest march that he was known as the leader of. The act prohibited the Indians from collecting, or selling salt, which was a staple in their diet.
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In 1932, after Gandhi spent 8 months in jail, as soon as he came out he started his famous hunger strike. He started the strike in protest of the British support of the Indian constitution that would now condone different political representations for the "untouchables."
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This Act is known as the longest Act that the British enacted during their time in parliament. The most significant part of the Act was that they wanted reorganization of certain provinces.
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In February of 1937, the results of the election were declared. The Indian National Congress had the power over eight of the provinces. They did not have power over Bengal, Punjab, and Sindh.
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Since Britain declared Germany and Britain decided to join the war against Hilter's Nazi state, the Indians were forced to join the war. They helped Britain fight in World War 2, and there was no choice.
