Yr 9 History: Mid Years

Question 1

Where were the Celts from?

Answer 1

Central Europe

Question 2

When did the celts settle in Britain?

Answer 2

500 BC

Question 3

When did the romans arrive in Britain? And stayed for how long?

Answer 3

Arrived in 43AD and stayed for around 400 years

Question 4

When did the Anglo Saxons arrive in Britain?

Answer 4

450AD after the romans left

Question 5

When did the empire windrush dock in Britain?

Answer 5

22 June 1948

Question 6

How many people were on board the windrush?

Answer 6

429 people

Question 7

Where did the windrush dock exactly?

Answer 7

Tilbury docks

Question 8

Why might have people left the Caribbean for Britain in the 40s?

Answer 8

A hurricane has recently devastated Jamaica
Sugar export prices were at all time low
No tourism
Little jobs

Question 9

What allowed immigrants from around the empire to arrive in Britain?

Answer 9

The 1948 British nationality act, allowing all members of the empire, now commonwealth, to recieve a british passport.

Question 10

What where south asian sailors known as?

Answer 10

Lascars

Question 11

What were south Asian nannies known as?

Answer 11

Ayahs

Question 12

Why did south Asians come to Britain?

Answer 12

Much violence in South Asia post WW2
Much poverty
Common floods and cyclones

Question 13

What was the Peterloo masacre?

Answer 13

A protest for reform in parliment turned bloodbath.

Question 14

How many people attended Peterloo?

Answer 14

50,000 people

Question 15

What were the casualties like in Peterloo?

Answer 15

11 people killed and 400 injured

Question 16

Consequences of the Peterloo masacre

Answer 16

Speaker, Henry Hunt put to 2 years in prison.
Gatherings of more than 50 people were banned.

Question 17

Arguments for women having the vote:

Answer 17

Women pay taxes just like men
Other countries allow women to vote
Uneducated working men can vote
Women could vote in local elections since 1888

Question 18

How many women were part of the Suffragists by 1900?

Answer 18

50,000

Question 19

Why and when were the Suffragetes formed?

Answer 19

Between 1903-1905 by Emmeline Pankhurst. They resorted to more violent methods as the Suffragists got nowhere. Their motto was “deeds not words”

Question 20

When did (basically) all women get the vote?

Answer 20

1928 all women over 21 got the vote.

Question 21

What happened during WW1?

Answer 21

The suffragists temporarily called off their campaign to help the war effort.

Question 22

What happended after WW1?

Answer 22

Women over 30 in 1918 got the right to vote.

Question 23

What was the 1965 race relations act?

Answer 23

It made discrimination illegal on the grounds of colour, race, ethnicity or origin. But only enforced in public.

Question 24

When was the first Race Relations Act?

Answer 24

1965

Question 25

When was the 2nd race relations act?

Answer 25

1968

Question 26

What did the Race Relations Act 1968 do?

Answer 26

It made it illegal to refuse housing or employment to someone because of their colour.

Question 27

What was the 1962 commonwealth Immigrants act?

Answer 27

People were only allowed to enter Britain if they were skilled professionals who had been given permission to work there.

Question 28

When was the Commonwealth Immigrants Act

Answer 28

1962

Question 29

What was the 1971 Immigration Act?

Answer 29

It severly restricted movement of immigrants into Britain unless they had a patent or grandparent born in Britain.

Question 30

When was the Immigration Act?

Answer 30

1971

Question 31

When was the the Peterloo Masacre

Answer 31

16th August 1819