Whitechapel & Jack the Ripper

Question 1

Who created orphanages?

Answer 1

Dr Thomas Bernardo

Question 2

What year were the JTR murders?

Answer 2

1888

Question 3

Name 5 types of jobs at these times

Answer 3

Bell maker, tailor, matchmaker, navvie, seasonal worker ( farming)

Question 4

What or who is a navvie?

Answer 4

Aka navigators, often Irish workers on canals and railways

Question 5

2 gangs in Whitechapel at those times

Answer 5

Bessarabian Tigers and the Oddessians

Question 6

3 groups of immigrants

Answer 6

Jewish, Irish, and Eastern Europeans

Question 7

Who was the Deputy police commissioner?

Answer 7

James Munro ( favoured by Henry Matthews)

Question 8

Who was Henry Matthew’s?

Answer 8

Home secretary at the time of murders

Question 9

Who was Charles Booth

Answer 9

Social reformer, investigated poverty in London, drew up poverty map.

Question 10

Who’s Charles warren?

Answer 10

Met Police Commissioner ( head of police)

Question 11

Who set up the CID?

Answer 11

Howard Vincent

Question 12

When did the CID get set up?

Answer 12

1878

Question 13

Who was the American that paid to replace the slums?

Answer 13

George Peabody

Question 14

Who did the government encourage attacks on?

Answer 14

Pogroms, Jews and Eastern European

Question 15

What was taken every 10 years ?

Answer 15

The census

Question 16

What were the two types of police in London?

Answer 16

Metropolitan Police and City of London police

Question 17

Which division of London was Whitechapel in?

Answer 17

H

Question 18

Name 3 types of housing in Whitechapel

Answer 18

Rookeries, Lodging houses and Peabody Estate

Question 19

Name 3 types of housing in Whitechapel

Answer 19

Rookeries, Lodging houses and Peabody Estate

Question 20

Describe the rookeries

Answer 20

Overcrowded slums - dirt, disease and crime

Question 21

Which Law allowed the government to clear the slums?

Answer 21

1875 Artisans Dwellings Act

Question 22

What was the Peabody estate?

Answer 22

Model dwellings, paid for by George Peabody, healthier than slum housing.

Question 23

What were workhouses?

Answer 23

Set up by poor law, offered food and shelter in return for hard labour.

Question 24

3 characteristics of workhouses

Answer 24

Shaved heads, up to 20 hours of work, all families separated.

Question 25

what were factories that didn’t follow employment laws called?

Answer 25

Sweatshops

Question 26

Who were the Fenians?

Answer 26

Irish catholic terrorist group who wanted Irish independence.

Question 27

What branch was set up to stop terrorism?

Answer 27

The special branch ( so creative)

Question 28

What did Socialists believe?

Answer 28

No private ownership of property or business. Thought all poor would be better off if the government took over everything.

Question 29

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 29

1887

Question 30

What was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 30

75 protesters injured when army and met police attacked protesters in Trafalgar Square.

Question 31

Which political movement opposes all forms of organised government?

Answer 31

Anarchism/anarchist

Question 32

Who were the vigilance committee?

Answer 32

A group of business men and traders who patrolled Whitechapel armed with homemade weapons to try to catch JTR

Question 33

What was the Bertillion Technique?

Answer 33

Police recorded physical information to identify repeat offenders.

Question 34

What did the 1890 Houses of the Working class act do?

Answer 34

Allowed slums to be cleaned and replaced with low cost accommodation.

Question 35

What was the Public Health Amendment Act?

Answer 35

Allowed councils to improve various health related things.

Question 36

Name 3 things improved by the public health amendments act.

Answer 36

Paving, toilets, and rubbish

Question 37

What was the Penny Dreadful?

Answer 37

Cheap newspaper, mostly read by the poor.

Question 38

What was the broadsheet?

Answer 38

More serious newspaper, more factual, mostly read by the rich.

Question 39

Who wrote memoirs?

Answer 39

Policemen

Question 40

How did JTR kill everyone?

Answer 40

Knife to throat