Laws and Policies
This law classified all South Africans by race.
What is the Population Registration Act?
This campaign involved nonviolent resistance and breaking apartheid laws.
Answer: What is the Defiance Campaign?
This trial charged anti-apartheid leaders with treason but ended in acquittal.
Answer: What is the Treason Trial?
These documents controlled the movement of Black South Africans.
Answer: What are Passbooks (Pass Laws)?
This act determined where people could live and led to forced removals.
Answer: What is the Group Areas Act?
This document called for equality and rights for all South Africans.
Answer: What is the Freedom Charter?
This trial resulted in life imprisonment for key resistance leaders.
Answer: What is the Rivonia Trial?
Type of jobs the Bantu Education Act wanted Black South Africans to be trained for
What is manual labor?
This law created an unequal education system for Black South Africans.
Answer: What is the Bantu Education Act?
This 1956 protest involved around 20,000 opposing pass laws.
Answer: What is the Women’s March?
Apartheid leader sentenced to life in prison
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Armed resistance group formed after the Sharpeville Massacre
What is uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)?
Led to the daily segregation of facilities, etc.
What is Petty Apartheid?
This event marked a major protest against pass laws that turned deadly.
Answer: What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
This term describes large-scale segregation, including forced removals and homelands.
Answer: What is Grand Apartheid?
The four races South Africans were categorized as
What are Black/Bantu, white, coloured, and Indian?
The name of the homelands created for Black South Africans.
Answer: What are Bantustans?
This organization led many resistance efforts, including protests and later armed struggle.
Answer: What is the African National Congress?
This event allowed the apartheid system to become official government policy.
Answer: What is the Election of 1948?
White president who worked with Mandela to help end apartheid
Answer: Who is F. W. de Klerk?