🟣| Unit 1 - Push External

Question 1

Points

6

Answer 1

• Highland Clearances
• Immoral Cities
• Russian Revolution
• Railway Boom
• Poor Pay
• Invaluable Skills

Question 2

Highland Clearances

Answer 2

• Landowners faced great financial pressure from famine as most of the relief fund for starving Highlanders came from their pockets, so their solution was to replace Highlanders with sheep and cattle for more profitable land.
• This pushed Scots to move to cities in England as they were left without jobs and accommodation, but could use their expertise to set up new farms.

Question 3

Immoral Cities

Answer 3

• Skilled workers who had moved from rural areas of Scotland with maintained religion were not used to the busy cities that they deemed immoral due to pub hours and prostitution because of the lack of religious structure.
• This pushed Scots to move abroad to Nova Scotia as they were unsatisfied not being able to live in a familiar way, but they could do this here due to the Scots that had came before them.

Question 4

Russian Revolution

Answer 4

• When the Russian Revolution of 1917 brought and end to the Large East European export trade in herring, the men who worked on trawlers and the women who worked as fish gutters lost their jobs.
• This pushed Scots to move abroad to countries like Canada where they could use their skills and have access to the vibrant fish markets there.

Question 5

Poor Pay

Answer 5

• Many trade workers in Scotland were paid poorly, and significantly less compared to abroad - it took granite workers a week to earn what granite workers would earn in 1.5 days in America.
• This pushed Scots to move to such places for better wages which would give them a better lifestyle in the long-term.

Question 6

Invaluable Skills

Answer 6

• Scots in cities who were skilled workers, such as handloom weavers, were impacted by industrialisation as this meant that their skills were no longer required or economically valuable.
• This pushed Scots to move abroad, to places such as India, where there skills were in demand so they could continue to make their living with what they has.