1. Thousands of years ago, the people living in the area that would become South
Africa were ______________-_______________.
2. About 1,800 years ago, ________________ from the north moved into the
region, and most South Africans trace their history to these people.
3. The ________________ were the first Europeans to establish a settlement in
South Africa.
4. By 1657, Europeans settlers were creating permanent farms around
______________ ______________ in the colony called South Africa. Dutch
settlers were known as ________________.
5. As the settlers needed more land and water resources, the _________________
people were forced to give up their land and become servants.
6. When the __________________ took over the colony in the early 1800s, many
of the descendants of the Dutch settlers moved north into land occupied by the
native __________________.
7. The Dutch descendants set up two new states in South Africa,
____________________ and Orange Free State. In the early 1900s, these states
were merged with British South Africa to form the ___________________ of
South Africa, a state that by this time had discovered vast deposits of
_______________ and diamonds.
8. Because native _________________ were considered second-class citizens in
the Union of South Africa, they formed the African ________________
_________________ (ANC) to work for equal treatment of the nonwhite
population.