Why did they leave Scotland?
Economic reason to move abroad
What is new work/employment?
Missionary and explorer in Africa
What is David Livingstone?
A benefit of jobs abroad
What is higher wages?
The Clearances
What is forced eviction of Highlanders from their homes?
What is the Salvation Army?
What is Australia?
Missionary in Nigeria who tried to end slavery there
What is Mary Slessor?
Improved transport that made Scots want to migrate
What is faster steamships?
Thatched roof
What is a feature of a blackhouse?
A source of work for many girls in the 19th and 20th centuries
This trade collapsed and caused Scots to move abroad
What is the herring trade?
Missionary in India who helped found Madras College
What is Alexander Duff?
Reason Scots felt welcome in their new homes
What is letters from home/support from family?
Potato Blight
What is paying for their fare to move abroad?
A process which was taking peoples' jobs away
What is mechanisation?
Scottish missionary in South Africa
The British Women's Emigration Association helped women emigrate because...
To help male colonists find wives and start families
Eviction from crofts
What is something landlords did to Highland crofters?
A profession helped to go abroad due to lack of work in Scotland
What is handloom weavers?
A *social* reason people left Scotland
What is more social opportunities in new lands?
Scottish missionary doctor
What is Dr Jane Waterson?
This government body sold off land in the colonies to emigrants
What is the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners?
Act which gave crofters more rights over their land
What is the Crofters' Act of 1886?
Scottish emigrant who helped orphans move abroad
What is William Quarrier?