The Great Trek was the migration by Dutch settlers away from British control in what is now South Africa.
The Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration during the 1830s and 1840s of the segment of Afrikaners known as Boers or Boere (Dutch/Afrikaners for "farmers"), who descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands.The majority of the Boer who took part in the Great Trek had left Europe because of religious discrimination. They generally did not find life under British authority in the Cape Province to be much better. So the great Trek was a search for a Boer homeland where they could live as they wished. In the trek they founded many new colonies, the Orange Free State, the Transvaal and Natalia. They fought the Zulu and other native tribes as well as the British in their search fo a place to live.
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The Mexicans were worried about the great influx into Texas by Americans
George IV was the king of great Britain and Ireland from 1820 to 1830
Transvaal and the Orange Free State
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There is a difference between the Boers and the Afrikaners. People tend to place them together however they are not the same. In the 1830 the Boers wanted to get away from the British and started the "Great Trek" into the rest of what is today South Africa. The Afrikaners did not join the trek and stayed on in the Cape with the British. This being why when the Boers settled in Transvaal and the Orange Free State, they were called Boer Republics not Afrikaner Republics. For political reasons people tend to place the two together today.
One of the effects of the Great Trek was that conflict and wars soon began to break out.
Something about the Zulu aggression. And the groups that had the tension that resulted in the great trek also went to war in 1899.
The two republics that established the Great Trek is the '' Transvaal'' and " The Orange Free State
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The Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration during the 1830s and 1840s of the segment of Afrikaners known as Boers or Boere (Dutch/Afrikaners for "farmers"), who descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands.The majority of the Boer who took part in the Great Trek had left Europe because of religious discrimination. They generally did not find life under British authority in the Cape Province to be much better. So the great Trek was a search for a Boer homeland where they could live as they wished. In the trek they founded many new colonies, the Orange Free State, the Transvaal and Natalia. They fought the Zulu and other native tribes as well as the British in their search fo a place to live.
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Trek is an Africaans/Dutch word Trekken meaning to march, draw, to pull or journey. Generally refers to the Great Trek of the Boers in South Africa, 1835
Brigham Young was the leader who led Mormons on a trek to Salt Lake.