🟣| Unit 1 - Push Internal

Question 1

Points

Answer 1

• Blackhouses
• Hard Work
• Making Ends Meet
• Highland Clearances
• Lack of Land

Question 2

Blackhouses

Answer 2

• Highlanders lived in blackhouses that lacked windows and chimneys and were shared with animals to keep them warm, which caused diseases like typhus to spread.
• This pushed Scots to move to industrial cities like Dundee as tenement buildings, although dire, were a better alternative and found in these places.

Question 3

Hard Work

Answer 3

• Scottish farmers struggled with the lack of balance with work - they would work 11 hour working days prior to WW1 with few holidays.
• This pushed Scots to move to industrial cities like Dundee in hopes of a better balance in life due to the different kinds of jobs and leisure opportunities.

Question 4

Making Ends Meet

Answer 4

• In the Highlands most Scots worked on the land and often struggled to make ends meet, and initially began temporary migrating to fill in for the periods where they could not harvest crops and make an income.
• This pushed Scots to permanently move to the South of Scotland as in the aftermath of the potato blight and Highland clearances they needed a solution, which came in the form of new jobs like working as navvies.

Question 5

Highland Clearances

Answer 5

• 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 because these Highlanders lost their jobs and tied in accomodation, so looked for this elsewhere in places like Dundee Jute factories.

Question 6

Lack of Land

Answer 6

• Because of population increase farmers had less and less land through the generations as this had to be divided between more people within their families.
• This pushed Scots to move from the Highlands as farmers did not have enough money and couldn’t afford the rent being charged by landlords, which wasn’t aided by the potato blight in 1846, so Scots would have to leave the Highlands to pursue other work to make their living.