Migration

Question 1

3 examples of migration to britain

Answer 1

Huguenots
Jewish
Windrush

Question 2

huguenot migration (push)

Answer 2

push- between 1560-1590 french protestants persecuted
70,000 French protestants killed st Bartholomew’s day massacre in 1572
Louis XIV tore edict of Nantes forcing Huguenots to covert migrate or face persecution

Question 3

huguenot migration (pull)

Answer 3

britain was ideal choice because it was Protestant

Question 4

huguenot migration (short term impact)

Answer 4

huguenots started up new industries like paper making.
They built 200 paper mills supplying 70 percent of paper market

Question 5

huguenot migration (long term impact)

Answer 5

Huguenot business in England produced British Banknotes from 1712 for the next 250 years

Question 6

jewish migration pull factors

Answer 6

British had lots of economic opportunities and safety from prsecution

Question 7

Jewish migration push factors

Answer 7

Series of Jewish Pogroms against Eastern European Jews.
One example is the Russian pogrom where 49 jews killed and 500 injured
in the 1930s 60,000 German Jews migrated to escape the Nazis

Question 8

impact of the jewish migration

Answer 8

Jewish migrants became a successful party of British society. For example M&S and Tesco.

Question 9

Windrush migration pull factors

Answer 9

1948 British nationality Act gave all people living in the British empire a British passport.This encouraged migration to Britain who needed healthy men to work

Question 10

Windrush migration push factors

Answer 10

Life in west indies hard after war
Jamaica had been devastated by a hurricane in 1944, poverty and hardship was common

Question 11

impact of windrush migration

Answer 11

Tension between the migrant communities and Britain
tension over racist attitudes
Glaudia Jones and the start of Notting Hill carnival tried to stop this