Starter quiz
- In what decade did World War Two (WW2) end?
- 1920s
- 1940s ✓
- 1960s
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- What is the word for the process of freeing a nation from colonial rule?
- 'decolonisation' ✓
- What is the name for the organisation linking Britain and members of its former colonies?
- 'Commonwealth' ✓
- Why did Britain encourage countries from its former empire to join the Commonwealth?
- Britain wanted to be part of a multicultural community.
- Britain wanted to benefit from their experience and wisdom.
- Britain wanted to continue to benefit from trade with these countries. ✓
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- Match the categories given to migrant workers who wanted to come to the UK to their definitions.
- Category A⇔migrants with a job in Britain to come to ✓
- Category B⇔migrants with special skills in short supply ✓
- Category C⇔migrants who could only take up unskilled jobs ✓
- What was the result of the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrations Act?
- It drastically increased migration from Commonwealth countries.
- It drastically decreased migration from Commonwealth countries. ✓
- Migration from Commonwealth countries stayed the same.
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Exit quiz
- What did the increase of black and Asian migration to Britain after World War Two (WW2) lead to?
- economic decline
- increased racism ✓
- increased discrimination ✓
- increased toleration
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- What is the term for denying access to services for people based on perceptions about their racial identity?
- 'colour bar' ✓
- Which organisation criticised the 1965 Race Relations Act?
- Campaign Against Racial Discrimination ✓
- Centre for Racial Discrimination
- Community of Racial Discrimination
- Community Against Racial Discrimination
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- Support for anti-immigration campaigns was increased in the 1950s and 1960s through ...
- the internet.
- the media. ✓
- the Labour Party.
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- In what areas did the 1968 Race Relations Act make racial discrimination illegal?
- education
- employment ✓
- housing ✓
- financial services ✓
- politics
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- Put the following events in chronological order.
- 1⇔The murder of Charles Wootton
- 2⇔Peter Griffiths became MP of Smethwick
- 3⇔The first Race Relations Act was passed in the UK
- 4⇔Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech
- 5⇔The second Race Relations Act was passed in the UK
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Key learning points
- As increasing numbers of black and Asian people settled in Britain, racism and discrimination also increased.
- The Race Relations Acts were introduced to address issues of ongoing racism in Britain.
- The media was used to exacerbate tensions and to increase support for anti-immigration campaigns.
- The Race Relations Acts did not change public attitudes overnight, but did show changing attitudes of the government.
Common misconception
The Race Relations Acts completely addressed the issues of racism that were rampant in post-war Britain.
The Race Relations Act went a long way in showing changing government attitudes and providing some protection to black and Asian people in post-war Britain - but they could not and did not change public attitudes overnight.
Keywords
Race riots - riots that break out between groups that identify as different race (e.g. black and white people)
Colour bar - a system where people who are not considered white are denied access to the same services as white people
Repatriation - to return someone to the country they came from, this can be both voluntarily or involuntarily
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