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country Gandhi asked for helped poverty and the poor people in India and he did the salt act and India's independence movement. Civil Disobedience Movement- In 1930, in the light of Great Depression, there was a giant increase in British Taxes. While the British were relieved at home for avoiding the effects of the Great Depression, Indians were forced to pay taxes for common items like salt. Gandhi called for Salt March and walked with his supporters from Sabarmathi to the coasts of Dandi He achieved his goals for getting India independence from the British rule by starting non-violent protests and refusing to use British goods such as clothes and salt. Mahatma Gandhi did not fight with brutality; he fought with peace and care for his country. Gandhi fought with peaceful.He led India's independence movement in the 1930s and 40s by speaking softly without carrying much of a big stick, facing down the British colonialists with stirring speeches and nonviolent protest. Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a 240-mile march to the sea, where they made salt from seawater. This was a protest against the Salt Acts, which made it a crime to possess salt not bought from the government He was jailed for the last time in 1942. Altogether, he spent seven years in prison for political activity. He believed that was for a good cause. Gandhi's movements inspired restrictive laws across the world. Nelson Mandela's pacifist activism mobilized great number of people against the Apartheid. He used Gandhi's non-violent methods to grow a populist base for the African Nationalist Party (ANC). Mandela's arrest led to an international outcry against South Africa which helped it end the Apartheid.