Effects of Migration and Empire

Question 1

Impacts of Italian immigrants?

Answer 1

1. They provided employment opproetunies through their hospitality businesses (ice cream parlours, chip shops and restaurants)
2. They opened cafes and restaurants which grew the use of hospitality businesses in Scotland

Question 2

Impacts of Lithuanian immigrants?

Answer 2

1. They worked in coal mines and helped improve the working conditions
2. Joined trade unions from the coal industry and improved wages, working conditions and safety
3. Their impacts on language and community didn’t last as they integrated

Question 3

Economic impacts of immigrants?

Answer 3

1. Italians provided employment opproetunies through their hospitality businesses (ice cream parlours, chip shops and restaurants)
2. Lithuanians worked in coal mines and helped improve the working conditions
3. Jewish created wealth and employment through the cigarette industry
4. Jewish excelled in the tailoring trade, making affordable and good quality clothing
5. Irish [Catholic] worked as Navvies and helped build roads, railways and canal networks
6. Irish created employment and grew they tea industry - Thomas Lipton opened grocery store nationwide
7. Irish [Catholic] tackled the hardest, least popular, and poorest paid jobs; filling holes in economy

Question 3

Impacts of Jewish immigrants?

Answer 3

1. They created wealth and employment through the cigarette industry
2. They excelled in the tailoring trade, making affordable and good quality clothing

Question 4

Impacts of Irish immigrants?

Answer 4

1. They [Catholic] worked as Navvies and helped build roads, railways and canal networks
2. They created employment and grew they tea industry - Thomas Lipton opened grocery store nationwide
3. They [Catholic] tackled the hardest, least popular, and poorest paid jobs; filling holes in economy
4. They produced political leaders (John Wheatley - Independent Labour Party). Hew as abasing conscription and rent rise and even introduced the Housing Act 1924
5. They [Catholic] established Catholic Churches and schools
6. They [Catholic], along with Italian and Lithuanian caused religious tensions in the majority protestant country
7. They [Protestant] brought the Orange Order and Orange Parades which became distinctive to culture and caused tensions

Question 5

Social impacts of immigrants?

Answer 5

1. Italians opened cafes and restaurants which grew the use of hospitality businesses in Scotland
2. Lithuanians joined trade unions from the coal industry and improved wages, working conditions and safety
3. Irish produced political leaders (John Wheatley - Independent Labour Party). Hew as abasing conscription and rent rise and even introduced the Housing Act 1924

Question 6

Cultural impacts of immigrants?

Answer 6

1. Lithuanians impact on language and community didn’t last as they integrated
2. Irish [Catholic] established Catholic Churches and schools
3. Irish [Catholic], along with Italian and Lithuanian caused religious tensions in the majority protestant country
4. Irish [Protestant] brought the Orange Order and Orange Parades which became distinctive to culture and caused tensions

Question 7

Impacts of Empire?

Answer 7

1. Refrigerators improved transport of food and its quality
2. Scottish trade flourished - NZ and Australia, gold in S Africa, locomotive/steel/engineering in India and Canada
3. Adopted languages from countries in the Empire
4. Brought vaster availability to raw materials (e.g. jute)
5. Money opportunities for small scale investors - Scottish American Investment Trust invested smalls sums into US and Canadian railways
6. Global insurance companies meant banking boost and more investments
7. Alcohol exportation increased (beer & whiskey) - Tennent’s “T” exclusive due to popularity
8. Higher ship demand, industry growth, more jobs (Clyde) - World’s ship hub was invested in, made 1/5 worlds ships
9. Industrialists funded wealth into their homes owns for schools, hospitals and public services
10. Scottish jute industry forced foreign competition as India could produce cheaper and transport easier
11. Textile factories suffered foreign competition, and further struggle with the change of WW1
12. Reliance on Empire for export and investment overseas and it was more profitable
13. Loss of 2.5 million population between 1830-1939 which was seen as brain drain - skill and talent moving and being sued elsewhere

Question 8

Positive impacts of Empire?

Answer 8

1. Refrigerators improved transport of food and its quality
2. Scottish trade flourished - NZ and Australia, gold in S Africa, locomotive/steel/engineering in India and Canada
3. Adopted languages from countries in the Empire
4. Brought vaster availability to raw materials (e.g. jute)
5. Money opportunities for small scale investors - Scottish American Investment Trust invested smalls sums into US and Canadian railways
6. Global insurance companies meant banking boost and more investments
7. Alcohol exportation increased (beer & whiskey) - Tennent’s “T” exclusive due to popularity
8. Higher ship demand, industry growth, more jobs (Clyde) - World’s ship hub was invested in, made 1/5 worlds ships
9. Industrialists funded wealth into their homes owns for schools, hospitals and public services

Question 9

Negative impacts of Empire?

Answer 9

1. Scottish jute industry forced foreign competition as India could produce cheaper and transport easier
2. Textile factories suffered foreign competition, and further struggle with the change of WW1
3. Reliance on Empire for export and investment overseas and it was more profitable
4. Loss of 2.5 million population between 1830-1939 which was seen as brain drain - skill and talent moving and being sued elsewhere