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Emirates National School Apartheid and The Civil Rights Movement Study Guide

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SECTION A: Short-answer questions

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This section will examine your knowledge of different events during the Civil Rights. There will be for each question

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Areas to cover:

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Apartheid

  • Background to the Apartheid-the Boers, the Boer Wars etc.
  • The beginning of apartheid-National Party
  • Mandela and the African National Congress
  • Peaceful resistance/civil disobedience in the 1950s
  • Spear of the Nation-ANC begins to use Sabotage
  • Sharpeville Massacre
  • Riviona Trial
  • Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement
  • Soweto Uprising
  • Apartheid in the 1980s
  • Mandela’s release from prison and the ending of Apartheid

Civil Rights Movement

  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Plessy vs Ferguson, 1896
  • Brown vs Board of Education, 1954
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Martin Luther King
  • The March for Jobs and Freedom
  • I have a dream speech
  • Greensboro sit-ins
  • Civil Rights Act, 1964
  • Voting Rights Act, 1965

SECTION B: Picture Questions (30 marks)

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This section addresses your knowledge of Apartheid in South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in the USA through 3 pictures.

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You will be asked to answer a question based on these pictures:

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The areas to focus on in this section are:

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  • Nelson Mandela’s release from prison
  • Soweto Uprising
  • Greensboro Sit-ins and the sit-in movemen

    SECTION C: Essays

    This is the
    final section of the exam. You will be asked to write 2 essays
    The first essay
    comparing the life of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela

  • In your essay
    mention:
    ·
  • Their approaches to achieve
    equality
    ·
  • How their government
    reacted to this
    ·
  • The results of their
    actions
    ·
  • The effect on their
    countries today
    The second essay will be on the
    Plessy vs Ferguson court case and how the ruling of this court case stayed in
    place until the Brown vs Board of Education
  • In your essay mention:
    ·
  • Why the
    Plessy vs Ferguson court case happened?
    ·
  • What
    was the ruling of this court case?
    ·
  • How did
    this ruling negatively impact the lives of African Americans?
    ·
  • How
    Brown vs Board of Education in 1954 helped bring this ruling to an end?

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