History

• Olaudah Equiano


  He formed a group called the 'sons of Africa' which campaigned for the abolition go slavery
• Autobiography


  He wrote an autobiography of his time as a slave and it was a bestseller
• His autobiography


  Inspired others to join his campaign
• Many people were sickened to hear of the slave trade system.
• He bought his way out of slavery
• He publish have to try and get them to abolish slavery
• The Amritsar Massacre


  13th April
• It was a holy day for Sikhs and thousands went on pilgrimage
• There was an rule in place in that stopped people from meeting in large groups
• General Reginald Dyer gave his soldiers an order to fire at the Sikhs
• Hundreds of Sikhs were shot dead and many were simply allowed to bleed to death
• Many Indians joined the Indian National Congress (INC) and people thought this was the end of British rule in India
• Round Table Conferences

  1. Indian nationals had no say in how India up was run

  2. Even in small local areas
• Educated Indians set up the Indian National Congress (INC)


  1885
• Aim of the INC


  To get a greater say in the way that India was run
• By 1918 nothing had changed and the INC worked more
• India in World War Two

  India was given more freedom and power for their military help in the war
• However, they were not completely free. British parliament was mostly male and biased towards Muslims which led to Hindu and Sikh protests
• After the war, Britain couldn't afford to keep the empire running and so India gained independence in 1947 when the Indian Independence Act was signed
• The middle passage was the trip slaves took between Africa and America
• Christopher Columbus discovered America
• Sepoy

  An Indian soldier employed by the East Indian Company
• Massacre

  The killing of a large number of people in the same place
• The Abolition of Slave Trade happened

  1807
• The partition of Ireland when Northern Ireland split from the Republic of Ireland
• The Boston Tea Party was where people threw the tea in rivers to protest about the price of tea
• Newfoundland was a British Colony in Canada
• Famine

  A severe shortage of food where lots of people starve
• The Mughal Empire (led by Genghis Khan) ruled India before Britain arrived and took over
• Empire

  One country ruling over other countries
• Colony

  People moving from the root of an empire to settle in another place
• The Partition of India was formed at the time of independence from Britain
• The buffalo was important to Native Americans
• The East India Company was a trading company in India, ruled by Britain
• 1.4 million Indian troops fought in World War One for Britain