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- Gandhi's speech on March 11, the night before the march
- We have resolved to utilize all our resources in the pursuit of an exclusively nonviolent struggle. Let no one commit a wrong in anger.
- Britain’s Salt Act of 1882 prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt. Indian citizens were forced to buy it from their British rulers who charged a heavy salt tax.
- Gandhi and his followers marched through the town of Dandi, where he gained many more followers
- Let's defy British rule by making salt from this sea water
- Gandhi proposed the idea of satyagraha to protest the British ban on salt. Satyagraha is a policy of passive political resistance. one way to do this was by making salt
- Gandhi was arrested by British authorities on May 5 along with 60,000 others
- After Gandhi was released from prison, he met with the viceroy of India, and agreed to call off the satyagraha in exchange for an equal negotiating role at a London conference on India’s future.
- On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Hindu extremists
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