Starter quiz
- Which word describes someone who moves from one country to another?
- 'migrant' ✓
- Complete the sentence: The Potato ______ and the availability of jobs in Britain were key reasons for migration from Ireland.
- 'Famine' ✓
- When was the Anglo-Irish Treaty passed?
- 1845
- 1852
- 1900
- 1921 ✓
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- What religion were the majority of Irish migrants?
- Protestant
- Catholic ✓
- Puritan
- Muslim
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- Match the correct description to the terms.
- Northern Ireland⇔remained part of the UK with a majority Protestant population ✓
- Irish Free State⇔the independent republic predominantly in the south of Ireland ✓
- What event was caused by the partition of Ireland in 1921?
- Second World War
- The Troubles ✓
- First World War
- The Great Famine
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Exit quiz
- Which word describes being targeted and treated badly, worse than others, over a sustained period of time?
- 'persecution' ✓
- Which word describes someone who settles in a country from elsewhere?
- 'immigrant' ✓
- By 1850, how many Jewish people were living in Britain?
- 400
- 2000
- 40 000 ✓
- 200 000
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- What was the purpose of the 1905 Aliens Act?
- to encourage Jewish migration
- to limit Jewish migration ✓
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- How did Jewish migrants impact Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
- They brought cafe culture with them and made it popular.
- They brought skilled woodworking and furniture making traditions. ✓
- They established silk weaving workshops and made silk fashionable.
- They made ready-made clothing more accessible to the working class. ✓
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- Put the following events in chronological order.
- 1⇔King Edward I expelled all Jewish people from England.
- 2⇔England's leaders allowed Jewish people to return.
- 3⇔The first Jewish Mayor of London, David Salomons, took office.
- 4⇔The Aliens Act was passed.
- 5⇔The Nazi Party came to power in Germany.
- 6⇔The Kindertransport was initiated.
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Key learning points
- By 1850, there were about 40 000 Jewish people living in Britain.
- Jewish people lived in poor and unsanitary conditions, with the 1905 Aliens Act designed to limit migration.
- Many Jewish people built communities in Britain; many Jewish migrants made furniture and clothes.
- In the 1930s and 1940s many Jewish refugees fled persecution from Nazi Germany and moved to Britain.
Common misconception
Jewish persecution and antisemitism only happened in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
Jewish persecution and antisemitism had been happening for thousands of years, with Britain expelling all Jews in 1290, without letting them return for hundreds of years.
Keywords
Immigrant - someone who settles in a country from elsewhere
Persecution - being targeted and treated badly, worse than others, over a sustained period of time
Kindertransport - the transportation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Britain from 1938-1940
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