Impact Immigrants - Social
How many Catholic schools are in Scotland today?
200, 300 or 400?
400
What dish did Italian takeaways sell that helped a number of industries in Scotland?
Fish and Chips
Name 3 words we use today that came from India?
Bungalow, avatar, loot and pyjamas
Locomotives and other products of the steel and engineering industries were exported to India and Canada. What percentage of Britain's exported trains were built in Glasgow?
13%, 23% or 33%?
33%
The ________ Benevolent Society was founded by Annie Lindey (a Jewish immigrant) in 1925 in Leith, this organisation supported many widows and single mothers in the area.
Ladies
Where is the beautiful art deco Italian cafe called Nardinis?
Largs
Who stole the details of how tea was made in China and passed this information to India leading to tea becoming a drink of mass consumption in Scotland?
Robert Fortune
What beer was so poular that in 1867 its red ‘T’ was registered for exclusive use across the Empire.
Tennent’s
What football club was founded in 1875 by Irishmen living in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh?
Hibernian
How many Goldberg department stores were there in Scotland where clothes could be more easily purchased?
100
How many Scots moved away from Scotland to make a new life for themselves overseas between 1830 and 1939?
2.5 million
The Empire also had a negative impact on Scottish farming. Which two countries exported frozen beef and mutton to Scotland after 1870?
Australia and New Zealand
By 1900 Irish workers accounted for what percentage of members of the Lanarkshire Miners Union?
75%
What is the name of the Austrian born Jewish manager of the Imperial Tobacco Company in Glasgow?
Jacob Kamusch
During the Victorian era, when the Empire was at its height, Glasgow’s population ballooned from 250,000 to __________ as people flocked to the city to work in industries linked to the Empire - shipbuilding, iron, engineering
750,000
Scottish foreign investment rose from around £60 million in 1870 to how much 1914.
£500 million
In Lanarkshire Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics lived close together which caused Sectarian trouble. Irish Catholics lived in Coatbridge and Irish Protestants lived in ____________
Airdrie
How many Irish Navvies worked on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway in Fife? To the nearest thousand
2110
Who was the controller of a shipping company that built a huge mansion which is now the Glasgow Museum of Art?
William Cunningham
There were 131 cotton mills operating in Scotland in 1868, but with foreign competition within the Empire, by 1910 Scotland’s cotton spinning industry had all but collapsed and only this many mills remained.
9