Global History and Geography II - Human Rights and Enduring Issues Synthesis

Practice flashcards covering the key concepts and historical documents related to South African apartheid, human rights standards, and historical analysis terms.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A document proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, that presented a common international standard centered on human dignity, equality, and rights without discrimination.

Apartheid

A system in South Africa beginning in 1948 that expanded legal racial segregation and political exclusion, controlling where many Black South Africans could live, work, and travel.

Pass laws

Legal mechanisms used in South Africa to regulate the movement of Black South Africans under the apartheid system.

Soweto Uprising

A 1976 student protest on June 16 against education policies, specifically the compulsory use of Afrikaans alongside English as a medium of instruction.

Democratic election of 1994

South Africa's first national election held in April 1994 using a common voters' roll, marking the transition to a constitutional democratic system.

Historical context

The broader time, place, conditions, and events that help explain a document or development.

Point of view

A source creator's position or perspective shaped by experience, role, values, or circumstances.

Purpose

What the creator intended the source to accomplish.

Audience

The people or group a source was meant to reach.

Cause

A factor that contributes to an event or development.

Effect

A result or consequence of an event or development.

Turning point

An event or development that produces significant change.

Enduring issue

A challenge or problem that has existed across time and has been addressed with varying degrees of success.

Human rights

Rights and freedoms understood as belonging to people by virtue of being human.

Inequality

Unequal access to rights, power, status, resources, or opportunities.

Power

The ability of individuals, groups, or institutions to influence decisions or control resources.

Resistance

Actions taken to challenge authority, policy, or conditions.

Document relationship

A connection between sources, such as cause/effect, similarity/difference, or change over time.

Evidence

Specific information from a source used to support a historical claim.

Corroboration

Comparing sources to see where they support, complicate, or contradict one another.

Reliability

How useful and trustworthy a source is for a particular historical question.

CRQ

A constructed-response question using a document or related document set.

Enduring Issues Essay

A Global II task requiring identification and explanation of an enduring issue using evidence across documents and outside knowledge.

Outside information

Relevant historical knowledge not directly stated in the provided documents.

Continuity and change

Analysis of what persisted and what changed across time.