1900-2010(4.1 WW1, race riots 1900-1919)

Question 1

What were the two options open to migrants?

Answer 1

Denization or Naturalisation

Question 2

What is the difference between denization and naturalisation?

Question 3

Act in 1905

Answer 3

Aliens Act

Question 4

Act in 1914

Answer 4

Alien Registration and British Nationality Act

Question 5

Act in 1947

Answer 5

Polish Resettlement Act

Question 6

Act in 1948

Answer 6

British Nationality Act

Question 7

Act in 1962

Answer 7

Commonwealth Immigration Act

Question 8

Act in 1965

Answer 8

Race Relations Act

Question 9

Act in 1973

Answer 9

Britain joins the EEC

Question 10

Act in 1985

Answer 10

Schengen Agreement

Question 11

Act in 1996

Answer 11

Asylum and Immigration Act

Question 12

Act in 1999

Answer 12

Immigration and Asylum Act

Question 13

Act in 2002

Answer 13

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act

Question 14

Why was there such a limited control on immigration before the 1905 Aliens Act?

Answer 14

> Britain had an open door policy on immigration
more people were leaving Britain than coming in
Britain wanted cheap labour

Question 15

What were the key terms of the 1905 Aliens Act?

Answer 15

> immigrants had to have enough money to support themselves
they had to show they could earn a living
not allowed entry if they had a criminal record, mental illness or contagious disease
if they could prove they were refugees for a political or religious reason they’d be allowed entry

Question 16

Why did anti-foreigner feelings continue to grow after the Aliens Act?

Answer 16

Because of the portrayl of immigrants in the media eg bc of some immigrant robberies

Question 17

What was the siege of Syndey Street in 1911?

Answer 17

check textbook