History Quiz #1

Reservation of Separate Amenities Act

seperation in all public accommodations for different races

ANC

• The African National Congres

• political party in South Africa that fought against apartheid.

Population Registration Act

• A South African law that classified individuals by racial groups

Afrikaners

• A group of Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa

Immorality Act

• A South African law prohibiting sexual relations between different racial groups

• police power to raid homes + search fr unlawful couples

Bantu Education Act

• A law that enforced racially segregated education for black South Africans

• no academic content

• goal = embrace tribal identity, instructed in native lamguage/culture

Anglo-Boer War

• a series of conflicts between the british and the afrikaners

• laid the groundwork for apartheid

• ANC emerges

Group Areas Act

• further codified the system or reserves

• reinforced whites-only environments

• natives prohibited from owning land outside the reserves

Homeland System

• A policy that allocated specific areas for black South Africans to live and retain cultural identity

• aim was to establish self governing homelands for each race

Township

• A residential area designated for non-whites in South Africa

• no running water, no electricity

• 3.5 million people lived in them

Pass Laws Act

• you have to have your passbook

• includes address, demographics, taxes, and more personal info than prior

National Party

• A political party in South Africa that established apartheid policies

• It aimed to maintain white supremacy