second boer war 1899-1902-causes

Question 1

what created the circumstances which lead to the second boer war?

Answer 1

the discovery of vast gold deposit in witwaterand in 1886

Question 2

when did the second boer war start?

Answer 2

1899

Question 3

when did the second boer war finish?

Answer 3

1902

Question 4

what are the four main causes of the war?

Answer 4

gold, the jameson raid, murder of tom edgar and the role of alfred milner

Question 5

due to gold whose number excceded that of the boers? and what did this cause?

Answer 5

uitlanders and it causes growing tensions

Question 6

how did the workers and mine owner felt the taxes were?

Answer 6

too high

Question 7

what did uitlanders also bitterly resented the government for?

Answer 7

denial of political rights

Question 8

how long did a worker have to live in the tranvaal to gain the right to vote? and why?

Answer 8

14 years due to the substancial amount of uitlanders

Question 9

When was the Jameson Raid?

Answer 9

1895

Question 10

what caused the jameson raid?

Answer 10

disputes over uitlanders political and economic rights

Question 11

who laid the jameson riad? and who was he?

Answer 11

Dr leander starr jameson, admistrator of the rhodesia chartered company

Question 12

who organised the raid?

Answer 12

cecil rhodes

Question 13

what was the aim of the raid?

Answer 13

to place the gold of the tranvaal under british control

Question 14

what did the failed raid cause?

Answer 14

further tension between britian and the boers

Question 15

what did the boer in the cape colony form?

Answer 15

an anti british afrikaner bond

Question 16

when was the shouting of tom edgar?

Answer 16

1898

Question 17

who killed edgar? and why?

Answer 17

the police after he apparently resisted arrest in after being invovled in a fight

Question 18

what did the killing of tom edgar cause?

Answer 18

an uotcry of uitlanders and petitions signed by thousands to queen victoria demanding protection of their rights

Question 19

due to growing tension there was a number of what? till when?

Answer 19

negotiations until september 1899

Question 20

who was the british representaive during the negotiations?

Answer 20

high commissionor of south africa alfred milner

Question 21

who was alfred milner closely associated with?

Answer 21

alfred beit

Question 22

who was milner influenced by?and determined to do what?

Answer 22

by powerful men like beit was dtermined that britian should have complete control of the transvaal and orange free state

Question 23

what did milner demand for uitlanders citizens?

Answer 23

immediate political rights

Question 24

when was the bloefontein conference?

Answer 24

1899

Question 25

by the time of the bloefontein confernence milner has alredy decided to do what?

Answer 25

use force to get his way

Question 26

what did paul kruger the president of the tranvaal offer to do? and what did milner do to this offer?

Answer 26

offered a reduction of the voting rights to just 5 years but milner rejected the offer as not enough

Question 27

what did milner convince joseph chamberlain kruger was?and what did he say he will do?

Answer 27

a bluffer and would cave complete citizenship and grant uitlander inmmediate and full rights if the british sent forces

Question 28

what did milner diliberate misleading of chamberlain lead to?

Answer 28

kruger asking the forces coming to the cape to turn back or there will be war, and the british rejected this ultimatum

Question 29

when did war began and who started it?

Answer 29

1899,by paul kruger