Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and a leader of nonviolent movements to free India from Britain's rule. He accomplished this and many other things in his life that made a big impact on history as we know it.
             The Indians wanted their independence from Britain because they were being treated very unfairly. For example, the British forced the Indians to buy expensive salt from British-owned salt mines, when all along the Indians could have made their own inexpensive salt from the Bay of Bengal or the Indian Ocean. The British forced their customs upon the Indians and also forced them to be educated under British ways. All their old beliefs were exterminated when the British came in. However, after a while when the Indians were educated under British ways, they realized that they weren't being treated fairly according to the European laws. Their rights were being violated, they just needed someone to lead the way to freedom. The man that came along was Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian man educated as a lawyer in Europe. He suggested that the Indians help out the British when WWI came along, but after they did, the British did not loosen up their grip on India. Gandhi's next idea wa!
             The definition of civil disobedience is fighting for a cause without resorting to violence. Gandhi was using civil disobedience to humiliate Britain, unveiling the injustice that was going on in India to the rest of the world. Gandhi's hope was that after the British press got hold of the story, the only way for the British government to gain back face was to grant India its independence, or at the least give India a fair say in its government.
             Gandhi's methods of using civil disobedience to achieve his goals of India's independence were successful. His efforts to free India from the clutches of Britain were crucial to the success of the effort. There were two more methods of gaining India's independence. One is called passiv
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