Gandhi
Which country did Gandhi play a crucial role in gaining independence for?
India
Who became South Africa’s first democratically elected president?
Nelson Mandela
What does apartheid mean in the Afrikaans language?
Apartness
A fee added to the price of goods by a government.
What is Tax?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
In what country did Gandhi start his civil rights activism?
British colony of Natal
(present day South Africa)
How long was Mandela imprisoned for opposing South Africa’s apartheid?
27 Years
What tactics did South Africans use to oppose the apartheid? (Hint: Vocab word that is two words)
Civil Disobedience
A decision to go against unfair rules or laws.
What is Protest?
Being denied the right to vote.
What is Disenfranchisement?
Mohandas Gandhi, the well-known advocate of nonviolence resistance, was influenced early on by the ideas of _________________.
Henry David Thoreau
or
Leo Tolstoy
While in prison, Nelson Mandela read about who and her courage to fight for civil rights? He also met this person in 1990 outside what was then Tiger Stadium.
Rosa Parks
In what ways was the apartheid like Jim Crow in the U.S. South?
Both forced segregation, second-class status, and political disenfranchisement for black citizens.
When one company or group controls all of something.
What is Monopoly?
What kinds of international response did protests in South Africa create to help end the apartheid?
The international community responded by banning South Africa from participating in sports. Activists groups called for their countries and companies to divest from South Africa.
Gandhi’s use of nonviolence protest march, the Salt March, specifically to confront British colonial authorities in India is an example of what?
Civil Disobedience
At what age did Nelson Mandela become president?
75 years old
What did the Freedom Charter call for?
It called for an end to apartheid and new freedom and opportunity for black South Africans. It also called for education and a decent jobs for black citizens.
The thing you give up when you make a choice.
What is Opportunity Cost?
How did decolonization connect to the civil rights movement?
Non-violence methods.
Both working to gain freedom which led to major progress and change.
Both decolonization leaders and civil rights leaders understood their struggles as connected and often collaborated to create pressure.
What was the name of Gandhi's approach to nonviolent resistance?
(Hint: Like Ahimsa)
Satyagraha
What did Nelson Mandela burn in protest of the Sharpeville Massacre and never carried one again?
Passbook
Name 3 of the seven fundamental values of South Africa’s new constitution.
Freedom
Reconciliation
Responsibility
Diversity
Respect
Equality
Democracy
What kind of reform movement helped to stimulate the development of a women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand?
Temperance movement