Essay Questions For World Cultures Final

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Essay Questions For World Cultures Final

Africa --- Group B, Question 2
     Historians describe events and developments in terms of cause and effect relationships.
A.  Describe the causes of Apartheid
B.  Discuss the effects of Apartheid on South Africa

     There are many major causes that lead to the awful rule of Apartheid.  Many Afrikaners believed in the superiority of the White Race.  In 1910, a new constitution was adopted to support this belief.  The effect of this change made lives for blacks and other non-whites much worse.  There were many laws passed which separated the races with the non-whites getting the short end of the stick.  Within Apartheid there were laws called pass laws.  This caused non-whites to have many rights taken away such as:

1)  Ownership of land (besides reserves)
2)  Assigned land to live on
3)  forced to live in townships
4)  etc.

These laws put all minorities into a great disadvantage.  This caused the Africans living in the reserves/homelands to overcome many hardships.  For example, most of the labor force was black, but most of the businesses were on the "white land" in turn the blacks became what the called "migr...

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