CLEP Social Sciences

Answer - A - The Boers embarked upon the “Great Trek” during the early 1800s.

Key Takeaway: The Boers were a group of descendents of pastoralists who lived on the Eastern Cape Frontier in Africa in the 1800s. To escape British rule, the Boers completed their Great Trek to the north and east in South Africa in the 1830s. Then, in the 1850s, the Boers founded the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, which bordered British South Africa.