| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Mohandas Gandhi | Indian who used nonviolent resistance to fight for India's independence from Britain |
| Martin Luther King | American who used civil disobedience to gain rights for African Americans |
| Henry Thoreau | Transcendentalist writer who wrote about civil disobedience |
| Satyagraha | Nonviolent resistance philosophy developed by Gandhi |
| Atlanta | Place of Martin Luther King Jr's birth |
| South Africa | Place where Gandhi first used his non-violent resistance |
| Resistance to Civil Government | Essay which Gandhi thanks for some of his ideas on non-violent resistance |
| Mahatma | Means Great Soul |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Law which Thoreau opposed strongly in the 1850's |
| Higher Law | Law which Transcendentalists thought was more important than any government's laws |
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