Grade 10 Colonial expansion after 1750

SOURCE 2A This source describes the reasons why the British came to South Africa. In South Africa there was a complex mix of peoples – British, Boers (descendants of Dutch settlers from the 1600s) and native African peoples like the Xhosa, the Zulu and the Matabele. The British wanted to control South Africa because it was one of the trade routes to India. However, when gold and diamonds were discovered between the 1860s–1880s their interest in the region increased. This brought them into conflict with the Boers. The Boers disliked British rule. They wanted a simple farming life. British rule made their country increasingly a country of industry and business. The Boers also felt that the native Africans were inferior and should be treated as slaves. Despite this, they fought several wars with African peoples in the 1870s and effectively broke the power of the Zulus. [From http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g2/cs3/background.htm. Accessed on 5 June 2019.] 2.1.1 Why, according to the source was Britain interested in taking control of South Africa?

SOURCE 2A This source describes the reasons why the British came to South Africa. In South Africa there was a complex mix of peoples – British, Boers (descendants of Dutch settlers from the 1600s) and native African peoples like the Xhosa, the Zulu and the Matabele. The British wanted to control South Africa because it was one of the trade routes to India. However, when gold and diamonds were discovered between the 1860s–1880s their interest in the region increased. This brought them into conflict with the Boers. The Boers disliked British rule. They wanted a simple farming life. British rule made their country increasingly a country of industry and business. The Boers also felt that the native Africans were inferior and should be treated as slaves. Despite this, they fought several wars with African peoples in the 1870s and effectively broke the power of the Zulus. [From http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g2/cs3/background.htm. Accessed on 5 June 2019.] 2.1.3 Comment on the negative impact that colonialism had on the lives of both the Xhosas and the Boers in the Cape Colony.

SOURCE 2A This source describes the reasons why the British came to South Africa. In South Africa there was a complex mix of peoples – British, Boers (descendants of Dutch settlers from the 1600s) and native African peoples like the Xhosa, the Zulu and the Matabele. The British wanted to control South Africa because it was one of the trade routes to India. However, when gold and diamonds were discovered between the 1860s–1880s their interest in the region increased. This brought them into conflict with the Boers. The Boers disliked British rule. They wanted a simple farming life. British rule made their country increasingly a country of industry and business. The Boers also felt that the native Africans were inferior and should be treated as slaves. Despite this, they fought several wars with African peoples in the 1870s and effectively broke the power of the Zulus. [From http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g2/cs3/background.htm. Accessed on 5 June 2019.] 2.1.4 Use the information in the source and your knowledge and explain why the Boers disliked the British rule.

SOURCE 2B (extract) This source refers to the cattle killing as mass resistance, not mass suicide written by Gemma Pitcher. When she returned, she said that she had seen a man, who had told her that, ‘The whole community would rise from the dead; that all cattle now living must be slaughtered’. The girls returned home and told their families what had happened, but nobody believed them. [From www.siyabona.com/eastern/cape.xhosa/cattle killling.htlm: Accessed on 6 July 2019.] 2.2.1 What, according to the source, did Nongqawuse report to her family after her encounter with the man?