History - Scottish migration

Question 1

Push reasons for internal migration

Famine -

By 1846, the spread of potato x wiped our the crop in the x Highlands of Scotland leaving x at risk of starvation.

Answer 1

1. Blight
2. Western
3. 150,000

Question 2

Push reason for internal migration

Sub division of land in the Highlands -

The population increase meant that Highland x became further and further sub-divided among family members and harder for them to pay rent.

Answer 2

Crofters

Question 3

Push reason for internal migration

The Highland clearances -

Landowners could make a bigger profit from converting their land into x/x runs rather than renting to x. This led to the evocation of Highlanders who looked to alternative ways of life such as collecting x or x on the coast, or to towns/cities to work in x or x.

Answer 3

1. Sheep/deer
2. Crofters
3. Kelp
4. Fishing
5. Factories or industry

Question 4

Push reason for internal migration

The agricultural revolution -

After 1840 new technology like the x ploughing engine, mechanical x and binders, halved the amount of man hours needed. This led to a decline in job availability which in turn led to a movement by farm labourers to x to find alternative sources of work in x or x. For example, by 18xx, 15% of the population of rural Peeblesshire had made its way to x.

Answer 4

1. Fowler
2. Reapers
3. Towns
4. Factories or industry
5. 1851
6. Edinburgh