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Unit 9: European Imperialism in India to Independence Vocabulary

Terms in this set (9)

The British colony of India - so called because of its importance in the British Empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods
Jewel in the Crown
A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater
Salt March
An 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India
Sepoy Mutiny
Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trial for as long as two years
Rowlatt Acts
A division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan
Partition
An Indian soldier serving under British command
Sepoy
Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts
Amritsar Massacre
The British-controlled portions of India in the years 1757-1947
Raj
A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
Civil Disobedience
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