Population and Housing Quiz

List three reasons the population of Scotland grew in the C19th

How did work change between 1830 and 1900 ? (Where did most people work in 1830?) (Where did most people work in 1900?)

List three population movements of the C19th. (Where did people move from & to?)

How did the Irish potato famine affect Scotland?

What was a “Single End”?

Why did housing change after the First World War?

Explain why people left the Highlands in the nineteenth century. Source A is an extract from the census report of 1851 in the famine Source A “A million people deserted their homes to seek for food and shelter in foreign lands.” Explain why people left the Highlands in the nineteenth century.

How useful is Source B in showing living conditions in the mid nineteenth century? Source B is from a report about conditions in Greenock in 1842 Source B “Most of the dwellings of the poor are in very narrow closes or alleys with little ventilation. The space between the houses is so narrow as to exclude the sun. The houses are generally two or three stories high, divided into flats with four or five families in each flat. They have one or two rooms each of about eight to ten feet square.”