Knowlege Organiser Industrial Britain

Question 1

Define Industrialisation

Answer 1

The development of manufacturing on a large scale which resulted in internal migration. growing towns attracted migrants

Question 2

Define refugees

Answer 2

People forced to leave their country to escape war, and avoid persecution

Question 3

Define, forced migration

Answer 3

Thousands of black Africans were forcefully taken from Africa to work as enslaved people on plantations of British colonies in the west, Indies and North America

Question 4

Define Potato blight

Answer 4

Infected/disease potatoes

Question 5

Define tenement

Answer 5

Slum housing- overcrowded, unhygienic , poor quality housing

Question 6

Define navvies

Answer 6

Men who dug the canals and built the railways. Hard dangerous work e.g irish navvies

Question 7

Define sweatshop

Answer 7

A place where people would work long hours for low wages in poor conditions eg Whitechapel and spitalfield. Many were run by jews

Question 8

Define abolitionists

Answer 8

People who wanted to get rid of the slave trade

Question 9

Define non-conformists

Answer 9

A Christian group who emphasised a Christian belief that everyone is equal in the eyes of God

Question 10

Define pauper

Answer 10

A very poor person who relied on the state to help them

Question 11

Define a radical

Answer 11

A person who wants huge, social or political change

Question 12

What happened in 1750

Answer 12

Britain was the largest slave trading nation

Question 13

What happened in 1807

Answer 13

The slave trade was abolished in Britain

Question 14

What happened in 1830

Answer 14

Liverpool to Manchester railway opened

Question 15

What happened in 1832

Answer 15

Reform act gave vote to more property owning men

Question 16

What happened in 1833

Answer 16

Slavery in British empire, forbidden

Question 17

What happened in 1846

Answer 17

The potato blight destroyed the entire Irish potato crop. 1 million starved 2 million migrated.

Question 18

What happened in 1847-48

Answer 18

Over 300,000 Irish migrants arrive in Liverpool

Question 19

What happened in 1850

Answer 19

Carl Marx to migrate to England

Question 20

What happened in 1880-90

Answer 20

Over 100,000 Jewish refugees migrate to Britain, avoiding the Russian empire persecution

Question 21

What happened in 1888

Answer 21

Jack the Ripper murders

Question 22

Whats an ayah

Answer 22

Someone whos job it is to take care of children. Like a nanny. Normally indian migrants

Question 23

How were ayahs treated in britain

Answer 23

Many were discriminated towards and were discharged without any arrangements for them to return home. However a few were treated with affection.

Question 24

Why did the jews migrate

Answer 24

To avoid persecution and conflicts in the region from the Russian empire
Also because of new economic opportunities

Question 25

Why did the slave trade get abolished

Answer 25

Because of the growing abolitionist movement
Because of the Industrial Revolution as attention shifted from agriculture to industry and machines could do the labour of people

Question 26

What affects did migrants have on britain 1700-1900

Answer 26

Economically- filled labour shortages. Helped grow towns. New businesses eg m&s

Socially- brought diversity to britian new languages and foods

Culturally- influenced art, music, cuisine shaped British culture

Question 27

How were migrants treated

Answer 27

Migrants were accepted where they were contributing to british prosperity however many faced persecution and prejudice and lived lives of poverty