whitechapel

Question 1

what was a rookerie

Answer 1

• croded areas of low quality houses
• some several stories high
• over 30 people might share one house or apparment

Question 2

whitechapel was r_______ and O_____

Answer 2

rundown and overcrowded

Question 3

what was a lodging house/doss house

Answer 3

• individuals could sleep in dormitory style bunks for a few pence a night
• pay less if they slept upright leaning over a rope

Question 4

what type of people lived in workhouses

Answer 4

• young
• old
• poor
• chronically ill

Question 5

what were conditions of workhouses

Answer 5

• accomodation of poor standard
• discipline was harsh
• families split u
• work - long hours doing repetitive tasks like picking oakhum to earn their keep

Question 6

what was the peabody estate

Answer 6

• blocks of flats built in white chapel which were goodish quality but cheapish so people could afford them

Question 7

what was the artisans dwellings act and when was it introduced

Answer 7

attempted to clear some of the worst slums in country and replace them with better housing
- 1875

Question 8

how did Peabody estate affect white chapel

Answer 8

• didnt affect it as a whole
  changes in one small area

Question 9

what did Charles booth create

Answer 9

the white chapel poverty map

Question 10

poverty and crime were ________ in white chapel

Answer 10

common

Question 11

what was unemployment like in whitechapel

Answer 11

unemployment was high in whitechapel and lots of people struggled to find jobs
- people didnt typically have much money

Question 12

what was health like in whitechapel

Answer 12

poor
due to:
- poor sanitation
- overcrowded areas so disease spread quickly
- lack of money for healthcare

Question 13

what crime was common in whitechapel

Answer 13

• alcoholism
• prostitutes
• theft

Question 14

why were lodgers easy targets for theives

Answer 14

they carried their possessions around with them

Question 15

why did the irish immigrant to britian

Answer 15

to aviod famine and look for jobs

Question 16

why did the Jewish migrate to Britain

Answer 16

to avoid persecution,disease and hunger in eastern Europe

Question 17

what were the reactions to immigration in white chapel

Answer 17

• they thought they were taking their jobs - immigrants would work for low pay with residents thought undercut their wages
• adding to overcrowding
• immigrants experienced racism or were unfairly treated by police
• media stereotypes were often negative
• many Jewish immigrants lived on just a few streets to segregated
• more crime

Question 18

what is socialism

Answer 18

the belief that everyone is equal and money should be shared equally

Question 19

what is anarchism

Answer 19

the belief that there should be no formal government and society should work together

Question 20

white chapel saw an increase in people supporting _________ and ____________

Answer 20

socialism
anarchism

Question 21

what police force was responsible for london

Answer 21

metropolition

Question 22

what did sir Edmund Henderson do

Answer 22

introduce schoolmaster sergeants
- teach reading and wriiting to illiterate officers

some strict rules abloshied making the job more attractive
- no being able to grow a beard
- to vote

Question 23

what did sir Charles Williams introduce in 1888

Answer 23

introduce strict rules of policing
- have to aged 21-32
- 5 foot 9
- have to read and write well
- banned from owning a business

Question 24

what were H division responsible for

Answer 24

policing in white chapel

Question 25

what were advantages and disadvantages of the beat

Answer 25

advantage:
- patrols were thorough
- sergeants knew where to find constables

disadvantages
- criminals could learn the routes of the beat which mean they could work out when it was safe to commit a crime

Question 26

why was policing difficult in white chapel

Answer 26

• bad attitudes towards police - hostile
• winding dark allies - easy to hide + commit crime
• had to handle violent demonstrations

Question 27

who were the jack the ribber victims

Answer 27

• Mary an
• Annie Chapman
• Elizabeth stride
• Catherine ed dowers
• Mary Jane Kelly

Question 28

how did the jack the ripper victims die

Answer 28

mutilations

Question 29

what techniques did the police use to solve the jack the ripper murders

Answer 29

• traditional interviews with witnesses and suspects
• autopsies - to help assume things about killer
• sketches of crime scenes
  -photographs

Question 30

how did the media react to the jack the ripper

Answer 30

• newspapers,articles,magazines,cartoons published on the topic
• claims in who he was
• blamed and mocked police for not solving murders

Question 31

how did the high level of media attention make the polices job harder when solving the jack the ripper case

Answer 31

• media reports exaggerated and included unproven claims which confused public
• police flooded with false evidence
• police had to spend time fending ff criticism

Question 32

who were the white chapel vigilance committee

Answer 32

• fed up with police not catching ripper
• patrolled streets
• most evidence they got was made up