APartheid Reading #2 Questions

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Study Guide-Part II

1. How did blacks, coloureds, and Asians protest the increased restrictions placed on them in the early years of South Africa Union? Give two examples.

a.



b.




2. What influence did Gandhi have in South Africa?






3. Fill in the following chart.

Act Year Implemented Purpose of act

Prohibition of
Mixed Marriages
Act

Population
Registration
Ac

Group
Areas Act

Suppression
of
Communism
Act

4. What was the purpose of the Defiance Campaign?




5. Why did the various anti-apartheid groups join together as the congress Alliance?






6. How did the government respond to the Freedom Charter?






7. What did the Alexandra bus boycott show both apartheid supporters and protestors?






8. Why were PAC leaders unhappy with the ANC? Give three reasons.

a.




b.




c.






9. Why did the protest at Sharpeville become violent? Was someone at fault? Explain.