| Term | Definition |
| Population Registration Act | Classified all South Africans as Bantu, Colored, White, or Asian |
| Group Areas Act | Set aside separate living areas and business districts for each race within cities |
| Influx Control Laws | Prohibited blacks from being in a white area for over 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 to carry a passbook |
| Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act | made every black south african no matter where h 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 and languages |