Scotland

Question 1

Push Factors

Answer 1

Highland clearances
Highland potato blight
Decline of kelp industry
Political factors crofters war
Decline of fishing industry
Agricultural depression
Unemployment after ww1

Question 2

Pull Factors Emmigration

Answer 2

Jobs
Paid Passage
Encouraged to move
Land ownership
Better information
Letters from family

Question 3

Irish in Scotland

Answer 3

Bad jobs
Poor
Bad housing
Employers took advantage used as strike breakers
Not popular with Scots

Question 4

Italian scotland

Answer 4

Ice cream Parlour
Set up big buisnesses quickly

Question 5

Lithuanian in scotland

Answer 5

Mistaken as russian and deported
Lithuanian priests
Coal mines
Undervalued

Question 6

Jewish

Answer 6

Lived in small communities
Spoke yiddish

Question 7

Scots in canada

Answer 7

Indian residential schools
Built fur trade industry
Canadian pacific railway
Highland regiment in army

Question 8

Australia

Answer 8

Half of first 6 govenors of new south wales were scottish
Sheep industry
Wool industry
Place names eg. Perth

Question 9

New Zealand

Answer 9

Highland games
James macdandrew founding father
Assault on native people

Question 10

Contribution of immigrants to scottish economy

Answer 10

• a lot of huge construction schemes by immigrants , eg. forth road bridge
• Lithuanian immigrants imployed in coal industry (typically)
• Jewish immigrants improved tailoring and tobbaco inturtries in scotland( cheaper clothes and faster)
• Thomas lipton ( lipton teas) poor irish immigrants
• Some of the most well known buissneses in scotland were run by jews (eg. Goldbergs)
• Glasgow subway tunnell built in 1890s was largley built by irish immigrants

Question 11

India

Answer 11

Erased practice of sutee
Thuggeee dept

Question 12

Impact of empire on Scotland

Answer 12

• The empire exhibition in 1901 and 1911 show off success of scotlands involvment in the Empire
• the empire brought such wealth to glasgow and it became known as second city of the empire (behind london)
• jute grown in empire, imported to dundee where it was processed by dozens of mills boosting economy
• many who were successful in the empire returned to scotland and invested wealth there, such as building large properties
• large locomotive works (such as in inverrurie or glasgow) exported trains all over the world and empire
• the empire also enabled some firms and individuals to make great commercial fortunes , as well as providing many middle class scots with sucsessfull careers
• the development of the language was also effecte by empire eg the word “thug” comes from india, meaning assassin