Historical Context Chart

Historical Context Chart Prompt: To understand your topic, you need to understand the world in which the events related to that topic took place. First, list your research topic and the revised research question you plan to address moving forward. Then, choose two secondary sources related to your research topic and provide the citation for each in the chart. You may use secondary sources from previous assignments. Next, explain in the chart what each source tells you about the historical context of a chosen event and how it relates to your topic. In the last chart column, explain how the context provided by the source will help you write your thesis statement, answering your research question. Replace the bracketed text with the relevant information. Historical Context Chart Research Topic: South African Apartheid Selected Revised Research Question: What were the three most important ways Mandela changed South Africa as its President? Secondary Source Citation Historical Context of Event Support Your Thesis Statement This source provides the background about the transformation of the African National Congress from a loose collection of groups against apartheid into a political system. The source details the political journey of de Klerk and Mandela. De Klerk repealed apartheid laws and immediately released Mandela from prison to have assist de Klerk with moving South Africa away from the apartheid. This source gives historical context by diving into the problems caused by the sudden dropping of racist apartheid laws. South African black people were discriminated against, were not able to take up for themselves, and were now just given the okay to speak, live, and love whomever. The ANC and de Klerk did not know how to usher in a New South Africa and needed Mandela, who had been a voice of change, to help him design a post-apartheid South Africa. The context provides me with a political context. This context shows much of the side of politics and how the ANC, de Klerk, and Mandela struggled with the Transformation of South Africa. With this source detailing the era of political distress and social distress of the people, I see a deeper picture and image of the past. This source will assist me with my thesis on the Apartheid. The formation of the ANC from small, allied groups into banding together to make a true political system supports my thesis by them ushering in Mandela as president to transform South Africa. The historical context helps me support my thesis and research questions by providing historical political context. This source provides background of the attempts of The historical context that was found in my source will Secondary Source Citation and the Process of Reconciliation in South Africa. Historical Context of Event Support Your Thesis Statement reconciliation process of post-apartheid South Africa. This source details the events of the apartheid and how Mandela and ANC attempted to restore harmony from those that were mistreated. Historical context is provided by revealing the laws and their negative effects on Black and Asian people that were imposed by the minority leader National Party Regime in 1949. Mandela was a speaker and role model for change among the antiapartheid movement before and during imprisonment. Historical context tells me how people’s rights were taken and restricted during the apartheid and after the apartheid the Black Africans and Asian Africans demanded reconciliation. I believe it provides me with a cultural and political context. help me support my thesis by providing detailed information about what was going on during that time with the people. My research question dives into the ways Mandela helped reform South Africa post-apartheid. The historical cultural context provides what and why he needed to reform it. How the people were suffering from racism even after the laws were repealed and the need for reconciliation and peace to be placed back into the country. This historical context provides me with socioeconomical background that I can use to support my thesis and research question.