Britain- Migration, Empires and the People c790-Present Day: Migrants to and from Britain

Question 1

What was France’s main religion?

Answer 1

Catholicism

Question 2

How long were the religious civil wars in France?

Answer 2

1560s - 1590s

Question 3

What was the result of the religious civil wars in France?

Answer 3

Many French protestants- known as Huguenots -migrated to Britain

Question 4

What was St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?

Answer 4

Where tens of thousands of French protestants were killed.

Question 5

When was St Bartholomew’s Day in Massacre?

Answer 5

August 1572

Question 6

For what time period does Queen Elizabeth I make England a welcome place for Huguenots?

Answer 6

1572-98

Question 7

What does Queen Elizabeth I’s ministers invite skilled Huguenots to do?

Answer 7

To work and teach British apprentices

Question 8

What did the French King Henry IV issue in 1598?

Answer 8

A bill of rights for the hug nose called the Edict of Nantes.

Question 9

What was the Edict of Nantes?

Answer 9

Agreement granting Protestants civil rights in France in 1598; revoked in 1685 buy King Louis XIV of France.

Question 10

When does King Louis XIV of France tear up the Edict of Nantes?

Answer 10

1685

Question 11

True or false: Protestant ministers were given the choice of converting to Catholicism or or migrating out of France.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Finish the sentence: In 1685 the Huguenots officially became…

Answer 12

heritics and faced persecution once more.

Question 13

How many Huguenots escaped to England in 1658?

Answer 13

50000

Question 14

Name 3 ways the Huguenots had a positive social and economic impact on Britain.

Answer 14

1. Established businesses in communities all over England
2. Transformed existing British industries
3. Started up new industries

Question 15

Give 1 example of an existing British industry the Huguenots transformed.

Answer 15

Bookbinding

Question 16

Give 1 example of a new British industry the Huguenots created.

Answer 16

Papermaking

Question 17

By the ____s, Huguenot expertise meant that Britain had ___ paper mills, supplying nearly __ percent of Britain’s paper market.

Answer 17

1. 1700
2. 200
3. 30

Question 18

Finish the sentence: The Huguenot community boosted Britain’s business, art and crafts, however, there was still some….

Answer 18

anti- Huguenot feelings in Britain.

Question 19

What part of Ireland was known as Ulster?

Answer 19

The northern part

Question 20

Who did King James I send from Scotland and England to Ulster in early 1600s?

Answer 20

Protestants

Question 21

What did the move of Protestants to Ulster become known as?

Answer 21

Ulster plantations

Question 22

Why did most Irish people resent the Settlers migration to Ireland?

Answer 22

They saw it as an invasion

Question 23

Why did the Settlers Protestant religion calls problems within Ireland?

Answer 23

Many of the Irish were Catholic

Question 24

In the early ____s, over half of the people in Scotland lived in ‘_____’ in the Highlands.

Answer 24

1. 1700
2. clans

Question 25

What language did many Scottish people speak?

Answer 25

Gaelic

Question 26

What were the small farms that many Scottish Highlanders lived on?

Answer 26

Crofts

Question 27

What was happening in the lowland in the early 1700s?

Answer 27

Towns and cities were growing, and manufacturing and merchants were becoming wealthy.

Question 28

Which two religions were Highlanders largely?

Answer 28

Catholics and Jacobites

Question 29

What were the Jacobite Rebellions?

Answer 29

Rebellions in the 1700s that aimed to help the Stuarts regain the British throne.

Question 30

How long did the Jacobite Rebellions last?

Answer 30

1715- 1745

Question 31

In what battle were the Jacobites defeated in 1746?

Answer 31

The Battle of Culloden

Question 32

How did the English remove all potential opposition in the Highlanders?

Answer 32

Began the brutal policy of removing by getting rid of Scottish cheese and Clans that did not support George I.

Question 33

During who’s reign did the Highland clearances occur?

Answer 33

George I

Question 34

What did English landlords do in an attempt to make more money from the land?

Answer 34

Move tenant farmers off the land and set up large-scale sheep farming.

Question 35

Between which years were tens of thousands of Highlanders evicted from their homes?

Answer 35

The 1780s to the 1820s

Question 36

Where was some Highlanders forced onto?

Answer 36

Baron coastal lands or unworkable lands where they start to death.

Question 37

Although many Highlanders were forced to move to the Lowlands, where did many Highlanders migrate to?

Answer 37

England, Canada and America

Question 38

What did those who left Scotland become known as?

Answer 38

Scottish diaspora

Question 39

What is the definition of diaspora?

Answer 39

A group of people from a small geographical area scattered across different countries.