how to summarize great trek
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Great Trek, Afrikaans Groot Trek, the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands.
Related topics: Cape Colony; Natal; Transorangia; Transvaal; Voortrekker
Date: 1835 - c. 1845
Key people: Andries Hendrik Potgieter; Andries Pretorius; Piet Retief
Location: South Africa
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The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek; Dutch: De Grote Trek), starting in 1836 in southern Africa, was a mass migration of Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the British-run Cape Colony, who left the Cape and travelled eastward by wagon train, into the interior of the continent, in order to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration. Both the Cape Colony and the area newly colonised by the migrants later became part of what is today the country of South Africa.[1] The Great Trek was spurred by rising tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's original, mostly Dutch, European colonists, known collectively as Boers, and the later, mostly British, colonists, who had taken control of the Cape on behalf of the British Empire.[2] It was also spurred by an increasing yearning among members of the various Boer communities to live in a more isolationist, semi-nomadic way than had become possible in Cape Town, which was becoming much more administratively complex under British management.[3] Boers who took part in the Great Trek identified themselves as voortrekkers, meaning pioneers or pathfinders (literally 'fore-trekkers') in Dutch and Afrikaans