What impact did the Second Boer War have on attitudes towards colonisation? C aim – to analyse whether the Second Boer War strengthened or weakened public support for colonisation B aim – to analyse whether the Second Boer War strengthened or weakened public and political support for colonisation A aim - to analyse whether the Second Boer War changed public and political attitudes towards colonisation What are these people celebrating? How would this have affected public and political attitudes?

TopicWhat was this?C and B – How did this strengthen and weaken public attitudes towards colonisation? B – How did this strengthen and weaken political attitudes towards colonisation? A – How did this affect attitudes towards colonisation? (include strengthen, weakened, racism, political, public) Soldiers Relief of Mafeking Fawcett Commission

Overall, how did the Second Boer War affect British attitudes towards colonisation?

Homework – Due Thursday 5 th December Read the chapter and answer C – How did the British react to the Second Boer War? C – What battles were in phase 1, 2 and 3? B – What role did the different individuals play in the Second Boer War and in what phase? How did the British react to the Second Boer War? A – How did individuals and the battles affect public opinion of the Second Boer War?

Of course, they were of no comfort to the government. But Chamberlain had at long last got the message... Milner was in theory the man responsible for the camps, but the main decisions (or their absence) had been left to the soldiers, to whom the life or death of the 154,000 Boer and African civilians in the camps rated as an abysmally low priority.... the terrible mortality figures were at last declining. The commonsense of the Fawcett Commission had a magical effect on the annual death-rate, which was to fall by February to 6 per cent. and soon to 2 per cent., less than the average in Glasgow. Ten months after the subject had first been raised in Parliament, Lloyd-George's taunts and CB's harsh words at the Holborn Restaurant had been vindicated. In the interval, at least twenty thousand whites and twelve thousand coloured people had died in the concentration camps, the majority from epidemics of measles and typhoid that could have been avoided