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World History: South Africa
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1. Leader of 500 Dutch to avenge murders of Voortrekkers
Andries Pretorius
Jan van Riebeeck
Spear of the Nation
Cape Coloured
2. One of two Boer states in the interior by 1850 - located along Orange river
Boer War
Jan van Riebeeck
Cape Town
Orange Free State
3. One of two Boer states in the interior by 1850 - located along Orange river
San
South African Republic/Transvaal
Dingane
Orange Free State
4. Dutch company with trade interest in Asia; set up base to resupply trade ships
February 6 & 17 - 1838
King Shaka
South African Republic/Transvaal
Dutch East India Company
5. Sites where Boer women and children were kept. 28000 died of disease - along with thousands of blacks.
Majuba
Concentration Camps
Johannesburg
Weenen/ 'The Place of Weeping'
6. Established Dutch trade base in 1652;
loemfontaine
Dutch East India Company
Jan van Riebeeck
Passes
7. Voortrekkers and black allies fight Ndebele people 1836
King Shaka
Piet Retief
Jameson Raid
Battle of Vegkop
8. Area in the SE of South Africa; Good grazing land - but herds need to move. Reached by whites in 1770's
Battle of Vegkop
Cecil Rhodes
Zuurveld
King Shaka
9. Area in the SE of South Africa; Good grazing land - but herds need to move. Reached by whites in 1770's
loemfontaine
Bantu Speaking Farmers
Andries Pretorius
Zuurveld
10. Capital of Boer state 'Orange Free State.' Captured within a year of the war.
Zulu
Scramble for Africa
Pretoria
Gold
11. Black Skinned group of herders and farmers; moved to South Africa in about 400 CE. Could defeat Khoisan using iron and being stronger.
Gold
Cecil Rhodes
Bantu Speaking Farmers
February 6 & 17 - 1838
12. Center of gold industry in South Africa - also largest city.
Pretoria
Johannesburg
King Shaka
Lord Milner
13. Leader of 500 Dutch to avenge murders of Voortrekkers
Scramble for Africa
loemfontaine
Andries Pretorius
Zulu
14. Khoisan group; known for herding cattle. Also called 'Hottentots'
Khoisan
Cape Coloured
Voortrekkers
Khoikhoi
15. Brown Skinned ethnic group; occupied South Africa for over 2000 years. Two groups- San and Khoikhoi
Khoisan
Jameson Raid
Jan van Riebeeck
Kitchener
16. Originally Dutch stopping point; founded by van Riebeeck in 1652
Gold
Zulu
Kitchener
Cape Town
17. Originally Dutch stopping point; founded by van Riebeeck in 1652
Kitchener
Hottentot Codes
Ncome/Blood River
Cape Town
18. Militaristic and semi-nomadic tribe in Natal. Resisted Boer and British rule.
Scramble for Africa
Difaqane
Sugar Industry
Zulu
19. Businessman made fortune in diamonds through monopoly; would later become imperialist Prime Minister in 1890
Kitchener
Battle of Vegkop
Johannesburg
Cecil Rhodes
20. Brown Skinned ethnic group; occupied South Africa for over 2000 years. Two groups- San and Khoikhoi
Khoisan
Dutch East India Company
Piet Retief
Dingane
21. Businessman made fortune in diamonds through monopoly; would later become imperialist Prime Minister in 1890
Khoisan
Cecil Rhodes
Spear of the Nation
Hottentot Codes
22. Voortrekker leader tried to settle in Natal; killed by Zulus in 1838
loemfontaine
Piet Retief
Difaqane
Jameson Raid
23. 1899-1902 British fighting the Dutch. British victory by Dutch surrender - giving gold mines to England.
Voortrekkers
Lord Milner
Boer War
Concentration Camps
24. Sites where Boer women and children were kept. 28000 died of disease - along with thousands of blacks.
Great Murder
Majuba
Kitchener
Concentration Camps
25. 'Scattering of Peoples' The result of Zulu attacks on Natives - who fled inland.
Difaqane
Zuurveld
San
Lord Milner
26. 'Scattering of Peoples' The result of Zulu attacks on Natives - who fled inland.
Great Murder
Difaqane
Spear of the Nation
Dutch East India Company
27. The English translation of the ANC name for its underground guerrilla network - 'Umkhonto we Sizwe'
Piet Retief
Khoikhoi
Spear of the Nation
Sugar Industry
28. Leader of Boer resistance to British in late 1870s and 1880s.
Bantu Speaking Farmers
Khoisan
Paul Kruger
Difaqane
29. Used to track control movement of Blacks in white towns.
Pretoria
Passes
Great Murder
Khoikhoi
30. Site where Boer resistance defeated the British in 1881.
Passes
Xhosa
Majuba
Pretoria
31. One of two Boer states in the interior by 1850
Cecil Rhodes
Sugar Industry
Khoisan
South African Republic/Transvaal
32. Zulu leader after King Shaka; Orders Piet Retief and other Voortrekkers killed.
Bantu Speaking Farmers
Dingane
Barney Barnato
South African Republic/Transvaal
33. Capital of the Boer 'South African Republic.' Captured within a year of the war.
King Shaka
San
February 6 & 17 - 1838
loemfontaine
34. 1895 - British raid into Transvaal led by Dr. Jameson - supported by Cecil Rhodes. Defeated by Afrikaners.
Jameson Raid
Johannesburg
Ncome/Blood River
Scramble for Africa
35. Zulu chief and military leader; conquered a lot of land around the Tugela and Pongola Rivers. Murdered in 1828 and succeeded by Dingane.
Diamonds
Andries Pretorius
King Shaka
Khoisan
36. Dominated diamond industry along with Rhodes until 1888 - when bought out
King Shaka
Andries Pretorius
Barney Barnato
Majuba
37. Black Skinned group of herders and farmers; moved to South Africa in about 400 CE. Could defeat Khoisan using iron and being stronger.
Battle of Vegkop
Bantu Speaking Farmers
San
Voortrekkers
38. Senior British official in the cape - initiated the Boer War.
Battle of Vegkop
Zuurveld
Lord Milner
Weenen/ 'The Place of Weeping'
39. The dates - respectively - of the killings ordered by Dingane of Piet Retief's party and another group of almost 300 Voortrekkers.
King Shaka
Pretoria
San
February 6 & 17 - 1838
40. Afrikaners choosing to trek inland rather than be subjected to English rule. Moved in areas vacated during the Difaqane
San
Spear of the Nation
Voortrekkers
Passes
41. The English translation of the ANC name for its underground guerrilla network - 'Umkhonto we Sizwe'
King Shaka
loemfontaine
Gold
Spear of the Nation
42. Racial mix of Dutch settlers (Afrikaner) and Khoikhoi (African)
Diamonds
Cape Coloured
Migrant Labour
King Shaka
43. Used to track control movement of Blacks in white towns.
San
Sugar Industry
Ncome/Blood River
Passes
44. Senior British official in the cape - initiated the Boer War.
Lord Milner
South African Republic/Transvaal
Zuurveld
February 6 & 17 - 1838
45. 1895 - British raid into Transvaal led by Dr. Jameson - supported by Cecil Rhodes. Defeated by Afrikaners.
Orange Free State
Difaqane
Jameson Raid
Zulu
46. The result of European imperialism. Countries attempting to gain control of Africa and its wealth.
Barney Barnato
Passes
Scramble for Africa
Cape Town
47. Discovered in South Africa in 1886. Richest gold mines in the world produced economic booms and grew Johannesburg into large city
Gold
Khoikhoi
Johannesburg
Zulu
48. The British commander in the Boer War.
Kitchener
Andries Pretorius
loemfontaine
Zulu
49. The term used by some Afrikaners to refer to the killings of Feb. 17 - 1838.
Great Murder
Diamonds
Zuurveld
Cape Coloured
50. Voortrekker leader tried to settle in Natal; killed by Zulus in 1838
Khoikhoi
Andries Pretorius
Piet Retief
Migrant Labour