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Colonial South Africa Questions
Directions: As you read the brief history of colonial South Africa answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1) From what country were the first settlers in South Africa?
2) When did the first settlers arrive?
3) Why did the Dutch East India Company want a settlement at Cape Town?
4) What tribe did the settlers end up trading with? What was the political response to that trade?
5) Why did the Dutch East India Company release some of its employees from their contracts?
6) What was a burgher?
7) As they expanded, who did the burghers come into conflict with?
8) Why did Dutch and German colonists leave Europe?
9) Why did the burghers believe they had a right to be in South Africa?
10) What system helped the burghers expand their land holdings in South Africa?
11) As they expanded, what tribe did the Dutch settlers increasingly come into conflict with?
12) What allowed the burghers to easily take control of the Khoisan’s traditional land?
13) What happened to many of the Khoisan who survived the burgher’s expansion?
14) What was a Trekboer?
15) Why did the Trekboers move further and further from settlements?
16) As Dutch trading power declined around 1800, who began to move into South Africa?
17) When the British took over Cape Town, what was the ethnic makeup of the colony?
18) When the British took over Cape Town, how were race relations handled?
19) What is an Afrikaner?
20) In 1820, why did the British want settlers from England to move into South Africa?
21) How did the English settlers differ from the Afrikaners?
22) Describe the condition of Afrikaners (or Boers) in the mid 1820s after large numbers of British settlers moved into South Africa.
23) What did the British do in 1833 which increased conflict with the Afrikaners?
24) Why were the Afrikaners so upset by what the British did in 1833?
25) Explain the Zulu Wars.
26) Why did many Boers take the Great Trek?
27) What happened when the Boers moved into Zululand?
28) What happened at the Ncome River and why was it significant?
29) How did the British make money in Natal?
30) Where did the British find workers for Natal?