| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Population Registration Act | Classified all South Africans as black, colored, white, or Asian. |
| Group Areas Act | Set aside separate living areas and business districts for each race within cities; combined with other Land Acts, this law ensured that the white minority (about 1/5 of the pop.) would own 80% of the land. |
| Influx Control Laws | Prohibited blacks from being in a white area for more than 72 hours or from living in one of the black townships unless they had a job in a white home or business. |
| Bantu Authorities Act | Designated tribal homelands where black South Africans had to live unless they had a job in a white home, farm, or business. |
| Pass Laws | Required all nonwhites over 16 years of age to carry a passbook with important documentation, such as birth date, race, tribal affiliation, work history. |
| Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act | Made every black South African, no matter where he or she lived, a citizen of one of the 10 homelands but not of South Africa. |
| Mixed Marriages Act | Forbade marriages between whites and those of another race. |
| Immorality Act | Forbade sexual relations between whites and those of another race. |
| Bantu Education Act | Established separate, inferior schools for blacks where they were mostly taught about tribal life in tribal languages. |
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