South African Independence

South African Independence

by Thomas Waranavage

Multiple Choice

Who colonized South Africa in the 1600s?

• The Dutch

• The British

• The French

• The United States

Multiple Choice

What did the political power that came to power in 1948 decide to do?

• implement total equality

• give South Africans voting rights

• implement Apartheid

• put South Afircans in shcrage of the government

Multiple Choice

All of the following occurred under Apartheid EXCEPT:

• racial discrimination

• equality

• racial segregation

• Afrikaans was used as the official language

Multiple Choice

Under apartheid what were Black South Africans required to have in order to enter public spaces?

• A visa

• A passport

• a red start

• gmail card

Open Ended

Describe what life was like for Black Africans under Apartheid. Use specific examples.

Multiple Choice

What was the main goal of the A.N.C

• To get rid of the government

• To kick out all black Africans from South Africa

• To get rid of apartheid and increase the right a native Africans

​Desmond Tutu

• ​Bishop

• ​rejected violence

• ​opposed Apartheid

• ​1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.

​Desmond Tutu

​1. equal civil rights for all

2. the abolition of South Africa’s passport laws

3. a common system of education

4. the cessation of forced deportation from South Africa to the so-called “homelands”

Open Ended

Who was Nelson Mandela.

Multiple Choice

Nelson urged the ANC members to follow Gandhi’s beliefs in........

• violent revolution

• guerilla warfare

• non-violence protest

• higher education

Multiple Choice

How did Nelson's views change after the protest that happened in Sharpville?

• he no longer believed in ended apartheid

• he want to become the dictator of South Africa

• began to advocate more violent methods of protesting the government.

• his views did not change

Open Ended

Why was Mandela imprisoned?

​Soweto Massacre

​June 1976

​Students protested new law

​Afrikaans - required language in schools

​language of white South Africans

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Open Ended

Why did F.W de Klerk set Mandela free? 

Open Ended

What are two things you learned?