Experience of Immigrants to Scotland, 1880s - 1939 test questions

1

Why was there a need for new housing in the cities of Scotland?

2

Which immigrant groups settled closeby to their fellow countrymen?

3

What were one-roomed houses called?

4

What was located behind the tenements?

5

Which group of people found it more difficult to find work after legislation was passed to control mining and factory work?

6

What were workers called who laid railway tracks and built viaducts?

7

What type of business brought Italians great success in Scotland?

8

What phrase was used to describe employers who made employees work for long hours for little pay?

9

What type of organisation was the Orange Order?

10

What was the Brain Drain?