Indian Independence movement

By mckennanaughton

  • Rowlatt Acts

    Rowlatt Acts
    Law allowed for the British government to jail indian protesters with no trial needed which violated indian individual rights.

  • Amritsar Massacre

    Amritsar Massacre
    Unknowingly, Indians had a meeting in Amritsar to protest Rowlatt Acts which was not allowed. British shot many which angered Indias for a need for independence

  • Mohandas K. Ghandi

    Mohandas K. Ghandi
    Ghandi became leader of the independence movement. He used a religious strategy.

  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience
    The congress party endorsed the disobedience which was a public refusal to listen to any laws and nonviolence.

  • Salt March

    Salt March
    Ghandi and his followers walked many miles to get evaporated salt from seawater to oppose the British.

  • British allows for Limited Self-Rule

    British allows for Limited Self-Rule
    India act passed by the British Parliament which allowed for india to have a limited self-rule

  • British debts

    British debts
    British suffered large war debts from World War 2 so they contemplated keeping India under its power because it would be too expensive to maintain and govern the distant colonies. As a result British allowed for India’s independen

  • British house of Commons Act Passed

    British house of Commons Act Passed
    The British house of Commons passed an act that allowed for India and Pakistan’s independence in one month.