Young People's Lives
What popular style of music was introduced after WW2?
Jazz
Name the 5 giants, as identified in a report by a popular economist.
Disease, squalor, want, idleness, ignorance
In what year did the Windrush arrive?
1948
Samira Ahmed won a case for discrimination of pay against which company?
BBC
Who was the monarch of Britain during the Victorian Era?
Queen Victoria
What was the name of young men who dressed in Edwardian clothing?
Teddy Boys
Which word is used to describe how the government limited the supply of resources and food?
rationing
Where did the HMS Windrush dock in Britain?
Tilbury Docks
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What is the name of free schools for poor children , where they received basic education and class sizes were very large?
ragged schools
What year was the Butler Act passed?
1944
Which economist wrote a report identifying the countries biggest issues?
William Beveridge
Who was the prime minister at the time?
Clement Atlee
Which act ensured girls could go to secondary school?
Butler Act
Which novelist wrote Oliver Twist?
Charles Dickens
At what age could children take a test to get into grammar schools?
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Which political party was elected that passed various laws to help people?
Labour
Migrants from the Windrush were often faced with ___________ when they settled in Britain from the public.
racism / discrimination
What year was the Ford Motors, Dagenham strike?
1968
What was the name of the trade route that the British Empire used to transport goods across the Atlantic ocean?
Triangular Trade Route
Young men were required to complete 2 years of peacetime service in the army. What was this called?
National Service
What were all five acts that helped people?
Family allowance
New towns act
NHS
National insurance
Industrial injuries
British Caribbean people who came to Britain after the war are referred to as the ______ __________ .
Windrush generation
What act made it illegal to discriminate against women in terms of pay?
Equal pay act
What were the 4 most sought after raw materials when the British Empire was at its peak?
coffee, cotton, tobacco, sugar