18th and 19th century Britain

Question 1

The impact of the industrial revolution

Answer 1

• Urbanisation
• Transport links involving roads, canals and railways were improved
• Enclosure of fields meant that agriculture improved for the better
• People felt freer to to express different attitudes to the way in which society should be run.

Question 2

By 1750…

Answer 2

3.5 million Black Africans were transported across the atlantic in British ships.

Question 3

The ships returned from the slave trade to Britain with…

Answer 3

cargoes of sugar, cotton, tobacco and rum.

Question 4

In 1900 Britain ruled…

Answer 4

one-fifth of the world’s land and a quarter of the worlds population.

Question 5

Irish Migrants between the 1940-1950

Answer 5

• Fleeing poverty and starvation
• Many settled in Liverpool and Glasgow
• Some went to America or Australia

Question 6

Indian Students…

Answer 6

migrated to study at British Universities. Many studied Law.

Question 7

The East India company employed lascars from…

Answer 7

India, China, Malaya, Somalia and Yemen

Question 8

Italians came between c1700-c1900…..

Answer 8

For agriculture and safety

Question 9

Germans came between c1700-c1900…..

Answer 9

For a greater freedom for political ideas and peaceful compared to Germany.

Question 10

Irish experiences…

Answer 10

• Faced prejudice by protestants
• Irish navvies lost their lives becuase labour work was dangerous.

Question 11

European experiences…

Answer 11

• Contributed well to the economy so were generally well regarded.
• Some German scientists set up companies that became very successful - Brunner-Mond in Liverpool

Question 12

Jewish experiences…

Answer 12

• Many worked in the clothing industries
• Faced anti-semitism
• English felt threatened because of new Jewish migrants who were willing to work for lower prices

Question 13

Olaudah Equiano

Answer 13

• Helped persuade the public and MP’s that the transatlantic slave trade and slavery should be abolished. - In 1807 slavery and the slave trade was completely abolished

Question 14

Marks & Spencers

Answer 14

Created by a jewish migrant Micheal Marks in 1884.

Question 15

By 1900 lots of…

Answer 15

synagogues and mosques had been built.

Question 16

Chinese, Indian and Jewish resturants…

Answer 16

added variety to people’s diets.

Question 17

In 1900, Liverpools docks handled…

Answer 17

10.5 million tons of goods by 7 miles of docks.

Question 18

Irish community in the 19th century…

Answer 18

• Irish navvies built docks and thousands of migrants worked on them.
• By 1851 over 20% of the population was Irish
• By 1916 there were 24 Catholic parishes in the city.

Question 19

In the years after 1880….

Answer 19

about 150,000 Jews arrived in London.

Question 20

Sweatshops

Answer 20

• Working for long hours in poor conditions for little pay.
• Jewish people worked in them.
• Were illegal
• The ones in Whitechapel were hard to shut down because the owners were jewish and spoke yiddish which the police did not.

Question 21

Racial tension in the 19th century…

Answer 21

• Violence targeting Jewish people
• ‘Jack the Ripper’ was blamed on the Jewish community

Question 22

Polgroms

Answer 22

Violent attacks aimed towards an ethnic group, specifically Jews in this case.