Starter quiz
- Before 1939, lots of working-class children got a disease called...
- 'rickets' ✓
- Some __________ could pay part of their wages as National Insurance to help them see a doctor if they needed it.
- men ✓
- women
- men and women
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- The Beveridge Report was published in...
- '1942' ✓
- Which government set up a system of benefits known as the welfare state?
- Conservative
- Liberal
- Labour ✓
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- The National Health Service was set up in...
- '1948' ✓
- Which disease was vaccinated against, for free, in the 1950s?
- rickets
- polio ✓
- influenza
- pneumonia
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Exit quiz
- To rebuild Britain after WWII, the country needed lots more...
- 'workers' ✓
- The Nationality Act of 1948 gave...
- people who lived in the British Empire the right to live and work in Britain. ✓
- people who had been born in Britain greater rights than those who had not.
- people who lived abroad the right to live and work in Britain.
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- The passenger ship that brought many Caribbean people to Britain in 1948 was called the Empire...
- 'Windrush' ✓
- Why was life tough for early Caribbean immigrants?
- Rationing was still in effect. ✓
- They had nowhere to live.
- They faced racism. ✓
- They had left friends and family behind. ✓
- They rarely found work.
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- A high number of people from the Caribbean ended up settling in an area of London called...
- 'Notting Hill' ✓
- In Notting Hill, racist ideas and discrimination caused riots there in August...
- 1957
- 1958 ✓
- 1959
- 1960
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Britain needed workers to help with the nation's reconstruction and to work in the NHS; many came from the Caribbean.
- The first of these arrived at Tilbury Docks on the 22 June 1948 after a long journey on the SS Empire Windrush.
- Some British people were very unwelcoming and many of these arrivals faced discrimination in housing and employment.
- In 1958, riots broke out in Notting Hill that were motivated by growing racial tension.
- Hundreds of white people attacked the homes of people from the Caribbean and the violence lasted two weeks.
Common misconception
People from the Caribbean travelled to Britain without being invited.
These people were invited to become British citizens by the government in 1948 to help the country recover and lots had contributed in the armed forces during the war too.
Keywords
Caribbean - the Caribbean is a region of sea and islands off the coast of North, Central and South America
Windrush generation - the Caribbean migrants that travelled to Britain in the years after the Second World War are known as the Windrush Generation
Discrimination - discrimination means treating someone unfairly because of things such as age, skin colour, or religious beliefs
Riot - when lots of people are violent and disturb the peace it is known as a riot
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