The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a widespread but unsuccessful revolt against British rule in India. It began when Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of Britain’s East India Company refused to use purportedly tainted weaponry. One consequence of the
In such a volatile atmosphere, it required only one provocative act by police to produce open revolt. The riot accelerated deindustrialization and the exodus of whites from the city. Many buildings that were damaged or destroyed were never rebuilt. In July 1967, while the riot was still taking...
Owners of enslaved people in the South reacted to the 1831 Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia by passing laws to discourage antislavery activism and prevent the teaching of enslaved people to read and write. Despite this repression, a growing number of Black Americans freed themselves from ...
The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was an incident that occurred on April 13, 1919, in which British troops opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in Amritsar, Punjab region, India, killing several hundred people and wounding many more. It marked a t
Salt March, major nonviolent protest action inIndialed byMahatma Gandhiin March–April 1930. The march was the first act in an even-larger campaign ofcivil disobedience(satyagraha) thatGandhiwagedagainstBritishrule in India that extended into early 1931 and garnered Gandhi widespread support among th...