KB6: Migration in the 17th to 19th Centuries
Cards (36)
- What religion were most Irish people?
- What was the aim of the Ulster Plantations?
- How many English settlers were there in Ulster by 1622?
- What religion were the Huguenots?
- From which country did the Huguenots migrate to Britain?
- Why did the Huguenots know they would be welcomed in Britain?
- How many Huguenots migrated to Britain?
- For what two crafts were the Huguenots particularly known?
- What percentage of London's population is thought to have Huguenot blood?
- What religion were most Highland Scots?
- How did many Scottish landowners want to change the way they used their land?
- What was the result of enclosure for many Highland crofters?
- What was the political/ religious motive for the Highland Clearances?
- To what countries did many Scots migrate during the Highland Clearances?
- What percentage of the population lived in the countryside before the Industrial Revolution?
- As well as migrants from the English countryside, from where did people migrate to British cities during the Industrial Revolution?
- How did factory workers in the Industrial Revolution help to grow the British economy?
- To which country did Britain send it's convicts after it lost the American colonies?
- What was the name given to the first ships that transported convicts to Australia?
- How many convicts migrated to Australia by 1868?
- When did the transportation of convicts to Australia end?
- What was the main crop grown in Ireland?
- What disastrous event hit Ireland between 1845 and 1852?
- What percentage of the Irish population starved or faced starvation in the Potato Famine?
- How did the British Government make things worse for the Irish during the Potato Famine?
- To what countries did the Irish migrate to during and after the Potato Famine?
- Which English city was known as the 'real capital of Ireland'?
- How many Irish migrated to other countries during the 19th century?
- What percentage of British people today have some Irish ancestry?
- From which country did many Jews migrate in the 19th century?
- How many Russian Jews migrated to the USA?
- Which Jewish organisation was founded in England in 1732?
- What did the Jewish Free School teach?
- Which English novelist exploited anti-Semitic prejudice by creating a stereotyped Jew in one of his novels?
- Why did many English workers resent the Jewish migrant workers?
- Which Act of Parliament was passed in 1905, to limit Jewish migration to Britain?