unit 2 - the apartheid

Question 1

Apartheid

Answer 1

means ‘apartness’ in Afrikaans was a policy of segregation and discrimination against non-whites in South Africa

Question 2

Who colonized South Africa

Answer 2

• Dutch Settlers became known as ‘boers’ because Boer is the Dutch word for farmer.
• Boers enslaved many Bantu people (natives of the land)

Question 3

British Control of South Africa

Answer 3

• Britain gained control over South Africa in 1806
• boers were very unhappy and became angry when British outlawed slavery in 1835
• started the Boer wars

Question 4

S.A. Independence

Answer 4

• gained its independence in 1910

- beginning of the apartheid

Question 5

Race Laws

Answer 5

Many laws were made to establish the apartheid structure of government including the Race Classification Act, the Mixed Marriages Act, and the Group Areas Act

Question 6

What is the African National Congress (ANC) movement?

Answer 6

established in 1912 it opposed discrimination against blacks

Question 7

Why was the ANC banned

Answer 7

As large-scale anti-pass demonstrations and marches broke out in Cape Town and elsewhere in 1960, a state of emergency was declared and the ANC was banned.

Question 8

The silent years

Answer 8

in the 1960’s the breadth of apartheid laws and the power of the police made it impossible to legally protest against the system.

Question 9

Soweto Uprising

Answer 9

• in 1976 students in Soweto township began protesting a law that would enforce students to learn certain subjects in the Afrikaans language.
• They opposed the inconsistency in funding between white and black students in South Africa
• The students protested, and the police opened fire on the unarmed students killing upwards of 500 kids.