Why did Gandhi organize the Salt March?

The Salt March was a nonviolent campaign of Gandhi.

Salt Tax

• the British made it illegal for the Indians to collect the natural deposits of salt.
• due to India's weather, the citizens sweat and lose more of the human body's salt supply. Indians didn't eat much meat (natural source of salt) so they needed to find a supplementary source of salt. Thus, the British imposed the salt tax to control the Indians.

Salt March

• nonviolent campaign by Mohandas ( Mahatma ) Gandhi to protest against salt tax*
• one of the most important protests Gandhi has made
• Gandhi and his 78 followers marched from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the Arabian Sea.
• the journey was 240 miles or 386.2 kilometers

• it led to the Gandhi-Irwin pact where gathering and manufacturing salt is legal

• the government lifted the tax a year later after the Salt March

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