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This 6 page paper discusses two major political events in Canadian history: the nation's participation in the Boer War; and the "Conscription Crisis" that convulsed it when it introduced the draft in 1917. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the enmity and anxiety caused by its noisy neighbor. But Canada is fully engaged in the international community and has been from the beginning; it also is much less
tranquil than it seems on the surface. This paper discusses two events in that history, Canadas participation in the Boer War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917. The Boer War
The main cause of the Boer War was Britains desire to united all of South Africa under British rule (The background to the conflict). The Dutch, known as Boers, already
had a colony there; a "fiercely independent" people, they didnt take kindly to the idea of British rule (The background to the conflict). The British were adamant, however, and passed
new laws that the Boers disliked, such as one that made English the official language and another that emancipated British slaves (The background to the conflict). The Boers saw these
measures as threatening to their identity and to their economic well-being, "as their farms depended on free labour" (The background to the conflict). A large number of Boers, unhappy
with the British, moved away from the Cape Colony and founded Transvaal, then the Orange Free State (The background to the conflict). When diamonds were found in 1867, Britain annexed
Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally exploded over the "Uitlander question" (The background to the conflict). This
matter first arose in the 1880s, precipitated by the "Boers fears of being swamped by the, mainly British, Utilanders [the word means "outlanders"] during local elections" (The background to the
conflict). In addition, Cecil Rhodes, the "British Prime Minister of the Cape Colony began to stir up dissent among the British Utilanders," in the hope that they would form a
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