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Who was F. W. de Klerk?

• Fought against apartheid and was put into prison.    First black president of South Africa.  
• South African college professor and prime minister of South Africa.  Creator of apartheid. 
• South African president who ended apartheid.  Freed  many blacks who were imprisoned for protesting the apartheid government.  
• South African Rugby Team Captain.  Became a symbol of unity between the blacks and whites of South Africa.  

What does ANC stand for?

• African National Convention - meeting where South African leaders and politicians gather every year to discuss ways to heal the racial divide.  
• Association of Native Cultures - a cultural festival that celebrates the different ethnic groups that were present in South Africa before Europe controlled it.  
• African National Congress - a political party formed in 1911 to give blacks a voice in the South African government.
• Awesome New Contagion - a recently discovered bacterial infection that causes projectile vomiting in students who don't pay attention in social studies class. 

Who was Nelson Mandela?

• First black president of Somalia
• First black president of Libya
• First black president of South Africa
• First black president of Kenya

Which statement best characterizes the period of apartheid in South Africa?

• the majority of the population had the right to vote
• the Boers attempted to conquer Nigeria
• French was declared the official language of the nation
• many racist ideas of the ruling minority were adopted into laws

During the apartheid era, South Africans were divided into different groups.  The group that had the MOST freedoms and privileges was

• the Bantu (black Africans)
• the colored (people of mixed race)
• white (descendants of Boers and British)
• people of Asian descent

A feeling of strong pride for one's home country

• Colonialism

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Socialism

A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites.

• Independence

• Apartheid

• Segregation

• Partitioning

ANC leader imprisoned by the Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South Africa in 1994.

• FW de Klerk

• Nelson de Klerk

• Bishop Mandela

• Nelson Mandela

last National Party president (1989 - 1994) of South Africa during the Apartheid era. He freed Nelson Mandela in 1990 and worked with him to establish the country's first free election.

• Bishop Mandela

• FW de Klerk

• Nelson Mandela

• Nelson de Klerk

Self-reliance and freedom from outside control being responsible to do things on your own

• Continuity

• Imperialism

• Assimilation

• Independence