1. British Imperialism And The Boer War
... religious man, disenfranchised many of the Uitlanders from voting rights and heavily taxed the British subjects. In 1890 Kruger's government restricted the Uitlanders vote for presidential elections to only naturalized citizens who had lived in the republic for fourteen years. Kruger was afraid the new settlers would over power the Boer government and therefore fought vigorously to keep the Transvaal independence from outsiders. Though relatively few Uitlanders were ... genuinely concerned about the franchise, only a few chose to become citizens of the republic. Nationalism was a key is...
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