Industrial Period

Question 1

Reasons for coming - Irish

Answer 1

• Irish Potato Famine 1846, about 1 million people died
• Settled in Liverpool and Glasglow
• Many moved over to America

Question 2

Experiences - Irish

Answer 2

• Irish navvies dug canals and constructed railways - workload was hard and many were killed.
• Faced prejudice because they were Catholic while many english were protestant
• Some English people thought they were Feniens - Irish independence fighters- who ran bombing campaigns.

Question 3

Impact - Irish

Answer 3

• Feargus O’ Connor edited the Northern Star, a radical newspaper that supported chartists - a antional movement that wanted working-class rep in Parliment
• Catholic Emancipation Act 1829 - gave Catholics the same civil rights as everyone else, but they still couldnt attend universities, hold certain public offices or be monarch.

Question 4

Reasons for coming - European Migrants

Answer 4

• Jews: Fleeing pogroms in East Europe and joined already existing Jewish communities.
• Italians: Italy was at war and had outbreaks of typhus and cholera
• Germans: Britains had greater freedom for political thinkers to express their ideas.

Question 5

Experiences - European Migrants

Answer 5

• Were well regarded as they contributed to the economy:
• Paul Reuter; A German migrant, started the London-based Reuters News Agency in 1851 and sold international news to British newspapers.

Question 6

Impact on Politics in the Idustrial Period

Answer 6

• Oloudah Equiano helped persuade the public and MPs to abolish the slave trade - ended in 1833.
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
• Chartism - Feargus O’ Connor

Question 7

Impact on Trade and Industry in the Idustrial Period

Answer 7

• 1884 Micheal Marks - Marks and Spencers
• Irish navvies built a rail network that linked all the major towns and cities and helped England’s economy.