What was Mary Prince the first black woman to do?
Write a book in English
Become a Member of Parliament
Join the merchant navy
Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?
Paul Reuter
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Frederick Douglass
What pushed many people to leave Italy?
Natural disasters
Plague
War and poverty
What was the occupation of most Africans in 18th century Britain?
Servants
Seamen
Merchants
What kind of work attracted migrants to the north west of England?
Farming work
Factory work
Banking and business
What disaster forced many Irish to emigrate in the 1840s?
Famine
War
Floods
Why did Eastern European Jews come to the UK from the 1880s onwards?
To learn English
To find work on the merchant ships
To escape persecution
Why did many Scottish Highlanders leave their land?
They were escaping famine
They were forced out by enclosures
They wanted to work on merchant ships
Why did many men from overseas end up living in ports such as Cardiff, Liverpool and London?
They were navvies whose contracts had ended
They were refugees
They were merchant seamen who were unable to return home
Banks such as Baring and Rothschild were started by immigrants from which country?
Germany
Italy
Scotland