FAL - Immigration
What problems did new immigrants face in cities like New York?
Language barrier, poverty, racism, low wages and slum housing
What is segregation?
Keeping Black and White people apart
Name one type of gas used in the war.
Phosgene, mustard or chlorine
What was the middle passage?
The journey of enslaved people from Africa to the West Indies.
A water animal that was alive during the dinosaur age that still is?
Crocodile
From the 1890s there was a wave of non-WASP immigration from Europe. Name 2 countries these people came from.
Poland, Russia, Italy and Lithuania
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws that kept the races apart in the southern states
What does DORA stand for?
Defence of the Realm Act
What was the name of the buildings where enslaved people were kept on the coast of Africa?
slave forts
What is a nickname for a New Zealander?
Kiwi
What does WASP stand for?
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
What major event ended in 1865?
The Civil War
What was the names of men who refused to join the army when conscription was brought in during 1916?
Conscientious objectors
Which abolitionist wrote Amazing Grace?
John Newton
On which coastline of America is New York located?
Eastern
Explain 2 reasons why attitudes to immigration changed after 1918?
The US followed a policy of isolationism, there was a fear of communism, high unemployment, crime (the Mafia). Many WASPs felt their way of life was threatened.
What was the Great Migration?
The movement of Black Americans from the south to the northern cities.
What was the name of the leader of the Suffragettes?
Emmeline Pankhurst
What was the name of the slave who led the rebellion on Haiti?
Toussaint Louverture
What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
What were the names of the 2 Italian Immigrants who were executed in 1927?
Sacco and Vanzetti
What movie inspired many white Americans to join the KKK?
Birth of a nation
How many British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme?
20,000
What year was the slave trade finally abolished?
1807
How much dirt is there in a hole that is 1 metre square and one metre deep?
None - if there was dirt in it then it wouldn't be a hole