Crime and punishment

Question 1

Describe 2 features of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.

Answer 1

• This was a volunteer group formed to offer protection to people in Whitechapel area 1888, in response to Jack the Ripper’s activities;
• The committee asked the government to offer a reward for information about the killer. When the government refused, the committee put up its own reward.

Question 2

What are the sources that can help you to describe the action from a text or an extract?

Answer 2

1-Author data (ORIGIN)
2-Type (NATURE)
3-Why was it created (PURPOSE)
4-Usefulness
5-Own Knowledge

Question 3

Describe two features of hosing in Whitechapel between 1870-1900.

Answer 3

1-It was of a very low quality. For example rookeries had lots of lodging houses which were cramped and unsanitary.
2-The attempts to clear our slum. For example after the Dwelling Act in 1875, George Peabody founded the building of new flats which had better ventilation and plumbing.

Question 4

Describe two features of ‘sweated trades’

Answer 4

1-The pay which was taked of workers , or ‘slaves’ from Whitechapel, because this workers was paid so bad,and don’t take enough food to live a longer and healthy life.
2-The Whitechapel people type of living, a poor and a life of prison, homeless, dirty houses and no enough money for living with a family

Question 5

Why did the Northern Earls rebel?

Answer 5

Because the Protestantism was strengthening its grip on the country, and Mary Queen of Scots was available as a possible alternate ruler, and her cause was championed by factions who felt frozen out of power

Question 6

Who was Dr Bernardo?

Answer 6

Founder of homes for poor children

Question 7

Why did Khrushchev build the Berlin Wall?

Answer 7

Because of the economic effects of free movement in between West and East Berlin.