History Term 2

• Mineral Revolution


  A change from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy
• Land Expansion


  The process of creating the built environment to house urban populations and their activities
• Compound


  A building that houses black mine workers
• Close compounds


  Large square buildings with a centre courtyard enclosed with high fence to prevent free movement by the workers. Black mine worker could not leave during their contracts.
• Migrant Labour


  A person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work
• Land dispossession


  When a land is forcefully taken from its original owner
• Coco Pans


  A small wagon used in mines running a narrow-gauge railway line
• Claustrophobia


  A fear for small enclosed places
• Volksraad


  The government of Transvaal
• Ex-indentured


  Indians who had finished their contract and decided to stay in South Africa
• Passive resistance


  Protests without violence, for example by fasting demonstrations or refusing to co-operate
• Satyagraha


  Policy of passive (non-violent) resistance
• Concentration camps


  Guarded prison camps
• Exiled


  Send out of the country
• Union Jack


  The British Flag
• Invest


  Spend money on something in order to make more money
• Scarce


  Rare, hard to find
• Currency


  The form of money used in a country, for example the unit of currency in South Africa is the Rand
• Prospector


  Someone who explores an area for mineral deposits, such as gold or diamonds
• Ventilation


  A way of circulating air so that people can breathe more easily
• Silicosis

  A deadly disease of the lungs that is caused by breathing in the dust from the drills underground. A miner with silicosis usually got lung infections like TB or pneumonia, and dies coughing in agony
• Soil erosion


  The wearing away by wind and water and over farming of the Earth's surface
• Family erosion


  The slow breaking down of families
• Organizing notes using bullet points or mind maps can visually represent the relationships between different pieces of information.
• Segregation


  The policy of separating people in every possible way because of their racial or another difference
• Racism

  The false belief that some people are better than others because of their race
• Discriminate


  To treat people differently on the basis of factors such as skin colour, age, or gender
• Porous


  Allowing movement in and out
• British occupation of the Cape

  1806
• Natal came under British rule


  1843
• The Boers who had trekked into the interior established the Independent republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal


  1860
• The discovery of diamonds

  1867
• Final defeat of African kingdoms


  1879
• Berlin Conference


  1884
• The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand

  1886
• South African War


  1899
• Union of South Africa formed

  1910
• ANC formed

  1912
• Land Act


  1913
• Indian Satyagraha Campaign


  1914