South African History
To divide people into racial groups and keep them apart.
What is segregation/apartheid?
areas under control of another country
What is a colony?
a system were a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another (weaker) country
What is Imperialism?
Strong sense of pride in one's nation
What is nationalism?
A trade barrier in which a country stops trade with another country for political reasons.
What is embargo?
First black president of South Africa
Who was Nelson Mandela?
a war between citizens of the same country
What is Civil War?
Looking to avoid taxes and new ways to move resources Europeans first became interested in Africa for
The idea that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified
What is the Pan-African Movement?
When another country claims land to govern and use without asking those who live there.
What is colonize/colony/imperialism?
What is the African National Congress?
the competition between European countries to gain territory and colonies in Africa
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Missionary work by this religious group started to gain strength in the 1800s
What is Christianity?
The British ruled this country harshly through force and persuasion
Meeting in Berlin consisting of European powers for the purpose of dividing up Africa?
What is The Berlin Conference?
Dismantled apartheid by lifting the ban on the A.N.C. in South Africa
Who was F. W. de Klerk?
an organization formed by Native Africans to work for equal treatment for the non white population
What is the African National Congress?
meeting where European countries got together to divide up Africa
What is the Berlin Conference?
What is Nigeria?
A movement that called for unity among all African people
What is Pan-African-Movement?
Who are the Dutch?
to give up their own culture and customs and adopt a colonizing countries way of life
What group was not represented at the Berlin Conference?
What is the Africans?
European countries did not take into account the different ethnicities when they drew this
What are artificial boundaries?
The ten areas where Africans were forced to live during Apartheid
What are homelands?