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1
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who created the first orphanage

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dr barnado

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what year was the first orphanage created

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1870

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3
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what year was the anarchist revolt

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1871

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4
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define anarchist

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political movement that opposes all forms of organised government

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5
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what year was the peabody housing estate opened

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1881

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6
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what is Bloody Sunday

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75 protesters killed when the army and police attacked protesters in trafalgar square

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what year is Bloody Sunday

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1887

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8
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who is Charles booth

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a social reformer who investigated poverty. he drew up a map that included Whitechapel

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9
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who is the metropolitan police commissioner

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Charles warren

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10
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what was the year of the ripper murders, what time of year

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august-november 1888

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what is the CID

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the criminal investigations department

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12
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what did Howard Vincent create

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the CID

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13
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what year was the CID created

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1878

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14
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who paid for the new housing to replace slums

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George peabody

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15
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who is a influential anarchist

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mikhail bakunin

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16
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who was the home secretory of the time

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Henry Matthews

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17
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who was the deputy police commissioner

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James monro

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18
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who where the 5 victims of Jack the Ripper

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Mary ann nichols, annie chapman, Elizabeth stride,catharine eddowes, Mary Jane kelly

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19
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what are immigrants

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people who came to England from abroad

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20
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what is the name given to people who often work on canals and railways

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navvies

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21
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what where pogroms

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government encouraged attacks on jews especially in eastern europe

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22
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what was the name of the 2 gangs that operated in Whitechapel

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bessarabian tigers and the odessians

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23
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how often does a census take place

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every ten years

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24
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what was the police called

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the metropolitan police

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25
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what was the city of London police

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seperate from the met police (and rivals). the worked in the middle of London

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26
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what police division was Whitechapel in

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H division

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27
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what is a rookery

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overcrowded slum area chartiserised by dirt,diese and crime

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what was the name and year for the law that to clear the slums

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1875 artisans dewlings act

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29
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what was a workhouse

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a place that offered food and shelter in return of hard labour

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30
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what is a sweatshop

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factories that didn’t follow employment laws

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31
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what was the name given to the Irish catholic group who wanted independence,seen as a terroist group

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fenian

32
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what is a special branch

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department of the police designed to stop terroisim

33
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what is a socialist

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someone who doesn’t believe in private ownership of property or business

34
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what was the name given to the people who patrolled Whitechapel armed with homemade weapons, trying to Catch Jack the Ripper

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vigilance committee

35
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what is the Bertillon technique

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police recorded physical information, took photos and keeping records of previous criminals, to try to identify repeat offenders

36
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what was the 1890 houses of the working class act

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allowed for slums to be cleared and replaced by low cost

37
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what act allowed for councils to improve toilets, paving,rubbish collection and other sanitary services

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the public amendment act

38
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what was the penny dreadful

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cheap newspaper, sensationalised events to sell copies, read by poor people

39
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what was the more serious, trustworthy and read by the richer people

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the broadsheet

40
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what’s a memoir

A

some policemen often wrote accounts of their lives

41
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How many people averaged an apartment in Whitechapel

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30

42
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What was a lodging house often called

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Doss house

43
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How many lodging houses where in Whitechapel

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200

44
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How much of the population where in a doss house

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8000 1/4 of the population

45
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What where the rules to get into a Peabody house

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Born in London
Poor
Good character
No exclusion because of religion
Had to be clean

46
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What where provided in the Peabody estates

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Gas lit lights
Boarded floors
Cupboards
Meat safe
Coal bin
Indoor toilet
Free hot water bath
Sinks

47
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What where the rents in the Peabody estates for 1 room and 3 rooms

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1 room- 3s (15p)
3 rooms- 6s (30p)

48
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What was a type of housing in Whitechapel that provided free food and shelter for hard labour

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Workhouse

49
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How long could you rent a bed for in a doss house

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8 hours

50
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What work did you do in the workhouse

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Break rocks
Pick ropes
Make matches

51
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What where the type of people that you would find in a workhouse

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Old
Sick
Disabled
Orphaned children
Unmarried mothers

52
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How many orphanages where there in Whitechapel in 1905

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Nearly 100

53
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What was the motto for dr Barnados orphanage

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No destitute children ever refused admission

54
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What work could be found in Whitechapel

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Bell foundry
Shoemaking
Tailoring
Factory work

55
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What work could be found in Whitechapel

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Bell foundry
Shoemaking
Tailoring
Factory work

56
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How many hours did some people work up to

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20 hours a day

57
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What problems was there in work in Whitechapel

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Irregular work(find new work each day)
Seasonal work

58
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In 1888 how many estimated brothels where there

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62

59
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How many women was it estimated worked in prostitution

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1200

60
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What year did it become illegals to run a brothel

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1885

61
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What where prostitutes often called

A

Unfortunates

62
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Why did people in Whitechapel drink so much

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Because it was an escape from there terrible life

63
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How many pubs and gin palaces where in 1 mile of road

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45

64
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What problems did alcohol cause in Whitechapel

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People turned to crime to buy more alcohol ,violence, people where also made victims because they where weaker

65
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How many of the 17 hearings of “disorderly behaviour” where to do with alcohol

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16

66
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Where did the people in the two gangs in Whitechapel come from

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They where immigrants from east Europe

67
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What is racketeering

A

Demanding protection money from small businesses

68
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What is racketeering

A

Demanding protection money from small businesses

69
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Why was it impossible to get evidence about gangs

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Because people didn’t trust the police and they didn’t want the gangs to attack them

70
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Why did the Irish immagrents come to withechapel

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Because of the potato famine

71
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What were the Irish immigrants like?

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They were tough and strong and drunken violence was common

72
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What percentage in certain areas of Whitechapel were Jewish?

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95%

73
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What day was the Jewish holiday?

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Saturday

74
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Who spoke Yiddish?

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Jews

75
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What type of businesses did Jews often set up?

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Sweatshirts

76
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Why did the English not like the Jewish immigrants?

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They felt like they were stealing their businesses and they employed Jews over English men

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