Apartheid in South Africa

Multiple Choice

_______ was a social and political party of racial segregation and discrimination.

• Apartheid

• Laws

• American

• Alaska

Multiple Choice

In Afrikaans (the language of white South Africans), apartheid means "_____."

• apartness

• togetherness

• sadness

• happiness

Multiple Choice

Apartheid separated South Africa into whites and non-whites, _____ where blacks could live, work, travel, sit, go to the bathroom, eat, etc.

• allowing

• surviving

• respecting

• restricting

Multiple Choice

The ___ ____ ____ assigned every citizen a single racial identity, even if they were of more than one race.

• Population Regal Act

• Popular Vote Act

• Population Registration Act

• Papa John's Act

Multiple Choice

The ____ _____ _____ made it a crime for whites to marry anyone outside of their race group.

• Mixed Map Act

• Mixed Merriment Act

• Mixed Marriages Act

• Mixed Monthly Act

Multiple Choice

In the 1600's, the British and Dutch _______ South Africa.

• grew

• colonized

• flew to

• hated

Multiple Choice

In 1685, the first policy of white superiority became visible when a law as passed forbidding whites and _____ to marry in the territory.

• Muslims

• Jews

• Gentiles

• Africans

Multiple Choice

In 1910, ____ _____ established the Union of South Africa and governing power was only given to whites.

• Great America

• Great Alaska

• Great Britain

• Great Lakes

Multiple Choice

In 1948, a new political party, the National Party, came to power and voted to implement a series of restrictive segregationist laws, know collectively as _______.

• laws

• apartheid

• American

• a party

Multiple Choice

Even though whites represented only 10% of the population, they now owned ____ of the country's land.

• 86%

• 81%

• 80%

• 85%

Multiple Choice

10 homelands, or Bantustans, were created and _____ million people were forced to move there.

• 3.9

• 3.7

• 3.4

• 3.5

Multiple Choice

______ were identity documents that non-whites 16 years and older had to carry that prevented them from migrating into white South African areas.

• Paperbooks

• Passbooks

• Playbooks

• Pop-up books

Multiple Choice

The passbooks gave blacks permission to be in white areas for a limited amount of time, without their passbooks, they would be ______.

• arrested

• alarmed

• asked to leave

• about to cry

Multiple Choice

In the 1950's, the African National Congress (ANC) began to actively fight ____.

• apartheid

• aparations

• apeople

• appreciation

Multiple Choice

Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in ____ _____.

• South America

• South Africa

• South Alaska

• South Antarctica

Multiple Choice

On his first day of school, his teacher gave him the name ____.

• Nicholas

• Noah

• Nelson

• Nicole

Multiple Choice

After graduating college, Mandela became a lawyer and opened South Africa's first black ____ _____.

• lawgiver firm

• law firm

• lawman firm

• lateral firm

Multiple Choice

Nelson Mandela admired ____, who used peaceful protests in India.

• God

• Grandpa

• Gandhi

• Genesis

Multiple Choice

In 1960, a peaceful protest of apartheid in the town of Sharpeville turned violent as South African ____ fired on the protestors.

• policeman

• fireman

• chairman

• postman

Multiple Choice

After this, the ANC and Mandela began to advocate more violent methods of protesting the ____.

• guards

• grace

• government

• grid

Multiple Choice

Mandela was sent to prison on _____ Island.

• Robert

• Rodent

• Rescue

• Robben

Multiple Choice

There, he had to do hard labor and was allowed ___ visitor every six months.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

International sports teams ____ to compete in or against South Africa.

• refused

• really liked

• repelled

• really wanted

Multiple Choice

In 1989, Frederik Willem ____ became president of South Africa.

• de Klerk

• de Klam

• de Krap

• de Kram

Multiple Choice

In 1990, Nelson Mandela was pardoned by de Klerk and became a free man after serving ____ years in prison.

• 24

• 25

• 26

• 27

Multiple Choice

The constitution officially ended apartheid and granted ___ to all South Africans.

• equality

• equals

• equate

• equity

Multiple Choice

Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black chief executive (______) and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

• people

• public

• president

• program

Multiple Choice

There is still economic inequality and ___ throughout the country.

• preview

• prom

• poverty

• program