Africa - Apartheid in South Africa Flashcards

4553116495	Boers	Dutch settlers in South Africa	0
4553116496	The Great Trek	Boers move north and establish the Orange Free State and Transvaal	1
4562170835	Zulus (Shakas)	Shaka united the nation, Zulus also battled the Boers	2
4562172334	The Boer War	war that lasted from 1899-1902, guerrila fighting btwn Boers and British, British won	3
4562172335	The Orange Free State	the names of the independent boers republics in south africa	4
4562173518	Transvaal	geographic term associated with land north of the Vaal river in modern-day South Africa	5
4562173519	Afrikaners	people native to South Africa, from Dutch settlers They traditionally dominated South Africa's agriculture and politics prior to 1994.	6
4562193028	Apartheid	a legal separation of the majority black population from the minority white race in South Africa the entire country was segregated for 50 years	7
4562174864	Separteness	there were the whites and the blacks in seperate	8
4562174865	ANC	The African National Congress supported boycotts and strikes to bring attention to apartheid the government cracked down on the organization's activities and imprisoned many followers	9
4562174866	Boycott	a protest with reasoning hurt the economy, forced the government to impose a state of emergency	10
4562176374	Bantustans	the people who spoke Bantu Separate tribal states for Africans. Purpose was to support the apartheid.	11
4562177514	The Sharpsville Masacre	massacre where the police killed many demonstrators led to a strike led by the Africans after the government outlawed the ANC and cracked down on groups that opposed apartheid	12
4562183451	The Soweto Uprising	people opposing the apartheid and the police backfiring them, two people died catalyst to other uprisings	13
4562183452	Economic Sanctions	other outside nations did not want to do business with South Africa	14
4562184956	O.A.U.	Organization of African Unity, promoted cooperation among members, supported independence and sough peaceful settlements of disputes	15
4562186485	F.W. de Klerk	president of South Africa who released Mandela from prison in 1990	16
4562186561	Nelson Mandela	part of the ANC, in jail from 1962-1990, helped bring an end to the apartheid, won a Nobel Peace Prize	17