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Anti-Colonialism and the Anti-Apartheid Movement

8th Grade · Social Studies · US-PA-SS

6 lessons

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Examine Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement in India and the decades-long struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

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us-pa8.4.6.BPennsylvania Social Studies Standards · 8th Grade

B. Identify and explain important documents, material artifacts and historic sites in world history. • Africa (e.g., Prohibition of Marriages Act, prison on Robben Island) • Americas (e.g., Tenochtitlan, Aztec masks) • Asia (e.g., samurai sword, Commodore Perry’s Black Ships) • Europe (e.g., Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, Wittenberg Castle Church)