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Migration
Immigrant Experience
Emigrant Experience
Impact on the Empire
About the Exam
100
Job opportunities, better transport and cheap land are examples of this factor
What is a pull factor?
100
The blight of this crop forced many Irish immigrants off their land and over to Scotland
What is a potato?
100
The animal introduced into New Zealand by Scots in 1842
What is a sheep?
100
The Scottish city nicknamed Juteopolis after its major industry
What is Dundee?
100
A question worth 5 marks in the exam
What is a Comparison Question?
200
Along with Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow it was one of Scotland's 4 big population centres in the 19th century
What is Aberdeen?
200
The East European country that saw a huge influx to Scotland in the late 19th century mainly to do coalmining jobs on the west coast
What is Lithuania?
200
The area of Canada that translates as "New Scotland" after the huge emigrant population there
What is Nova Scotia?
200
The Scottish city known as the Second City of The Empire due to its exceptional industry
What is Glasgow?
200
The acronym for remembering how to do a "How Useful" question
What is COWPAT?
300
The amount of time to the nearest day, it took to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1914
What is 7 days
300
The famous ice cream parlour in Largs set up by Italian immigrants
What is Nardinis?
300
The national song of Australia, along with "Advance Australia Fair" written by Scots emigrants
What is Waltzing Mathilda?
300
The current football Scottish Cup holders and Championship winners, founded by Irish immigrants
What is Hibernian?
300
The total time allocated for the higher History exam
What is 2 hours 20 minutes?
400
The nickname for the basic, thatched dwellings with no windows or a chimney, most often found in the Highlands
What is a blackhouse?
400
The date in July when Irish Protestant immigrants usually hold their Orange Lodge marches
What is 12 July?
400
The title of James Ramsey, the Scot who made a huge economic impact on India
What is The Marquis of Dalhousie?
400
The company set up to increase trade and the import and export of goods between India and Scotland
What is the East India Company?
400
The maximum amount of marks available in a "To What Extent" Question for stating what the source does not say
What is 7 marks?
500
The amount to the nearest 3% that Scotland's population decreased between 1911 and 1951
What is 28%?
500
The area of Glasgow where the majority of Jewish immigrants congregated in the early 20th century
What is The Gorbals?
500
The country whose first 2 prime ministers, John MacDonald and Alex Mackenzie, were both Scottish emigrants
What is Canada?
500
The area of Glasgow responsible for manufacturing 1/4 of all the world's railways in the late nineteenth century
What is Springburn?
500
The phrase you should always keep in your head when worrying whether you have overthought how to do a source question
What is "It Really Is That Simple"?