Chapter 8 Podcast Assignment
Chapter 8 Podcast Assignment
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Part 1: Pre-listening
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Part 2: Listening
Visit missedinhistory.com OR download the podcast
app. Search Gandhis Salt March and click on the
podcast. Listen and answer the following questions.
You may stop and replay the podcast as many times as
needed.
1) Why did the British instil all sorts of taxes and laws on the people of India?
3) How is the French Revolution (back in Related Issue I) related to the British Salt Tax in
India?
4) What does mahatama mean? Why did people call Gandhi this?
6) Gandhi saw the salt tax as a symbol of oppression, and decided to start a march. Why was
this 24-day journey so remarkable?
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7) When Gandhi reached the sea, what did he do that the government deemed as criminal?
8) In terms of media, why was the Salt March such an effective publicity stunt?
9) Gandhi wrote a letter to Lord Irwin asking him to abolish the salt tax. Therefore, Lord Irwin
knew Gandhi was planning some sort of protest. Why didnt Lord Irwin have Gandhi arrested before
the march even began?
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Part 3: Post-listening/reading
Use information from the podcast and
your textbook to answer the following
questions.
1) Why did the large number of people
who joined Gandhis non-cooperation
campaigns (like the Salt March)
throughout the 1930s and 1940s amaze
and frighten Indias British Rulers?
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2) What larger movement in India where Gandhis non-cooperation campaigns a part of?
7) EVALUATION: Were the Indian Nationalists right to pursue national self-determination and try
to remove their countrys British rule? Why or why not? Explain thoroughly.