Aparthied+WebQuest

Apartheid WebQuest Apartheid to Dutch Afrikaners means “apartness”. In order to gain some background knowledge before we read an excerpt from __A Long walk to Freedom__ by Nelson Mandela, please take notes on the following questions. Print/type directly onto the sheet and print it out. Unless otherwise noted, explore these links: [] [] []

The word apartheid means “apart-ness” in Afrikaans. They separated them as black, white, coloured (mixed race), and Asian ( which was mostly Indians). There are 4 ethnic groups. 75% is black, 13% is white, 9% coloured, and 3% Asian. The language they speak is Afrikaans.
 * 1) What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language?
 * 1) In South Africa, how are people organized according to race?
 * 1) What countries are South Africans’ ancestors from (i.e. what ethnic groups are there)? How large are these ethnic groups? And which languages do they speak?

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 * 1) When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? It happened in 1948
 * 2) What was the purpose of Apartheid? The point of Apartheid was to separate whites from non-whites (segregation).
 * 3) What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? They put all the different races in a different land area so that the white wouldn't have to deal with them.
 * 4) Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words. It was when each race had its own homeland so they couldn't interact with other races.


 * 1) Give definitions of the following key terms:

homeland/Bantustan- one persons native land in which they haved lived and grew up in. township- in South America it was a little land outside the town for black people to live because of segregation. passbook- a reference was something the had to show the guards. labor permit- a labor permit is so you can live in an urban area. curfew regulations- they also had to show this to guards so they could get into the city if not they were arrested. preventive detention- it is just like going to jail, but you were only there for 30 days. Then it finally started to get longer.


 * 1) Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.

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 * 1) Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949- This act prohibits people of different races to get married.


 * 1) Group Areas Act of 1950- This was a law that made people of different races live in separate towns and if they were found in another races town they had to be removed immediately.