Early Modern Period c1500 - c1700

Question 1

Huguenots - Reasons for Coming

Answer 1

• St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre - Catholic mob violence directed to Huguneots - forcing them to flee persecution
• Were given Denizen Status by the monarch - gave them the right to live in England with certain rights of citizenship.

Question 2

Huguneots - Experiences

Answer 2

• Mostly welcomed as they looked like them and both Protestants - even created charities for them.
• A French Protestant Church was opened for them in 1550
• Were highly skilled craftsworkers - helped economy
• Some lived in poverty and didn’t lead good lives.
• 1517 May Day riots

Question 3

Huguneots - Impact

Answer 3

• Spitalfields - highly skilled silk weavers worked
• Cloth Trade boosted
• Invested in the Sheffield steel industry and started the English paper industry.

Question 4

Palatines - Reasons for Coming

Answer 4

• Mostly Protestant farmers left Germany due to bad harvests, famine, poverty and war.
• Very poor and had few skills apart from farming and labouring
• 12,000 came

Question 5

Palatines - Experiences

Answer 5

• At first Londoners raised 20,000 and welcomed them
• Later realised that they were not all protestant and their attitudes changed and became negative
• Gov deported thousands to Ireland, but about two-thirds came back

Question 6

Jews - Reasons for Coming (Early Modern Period)

Answer 6

• Came back to England in 1656 after Cromwell allowed them to come back.
• Faced persecution in Europe
• English economy was weak and Jewish merchants could help it.

Question 7

Jews - Experiences (Early Modern Period)

Answer 7

• Were allowed to open a synogogue by authorities
• Worked mainly as bankers, doctors, scholars n jeweller
• Poorer Jews came from Eastern Europe and settled in the arrival ports and worked as dockers, trader, pawnbrokers

Question 8

Jews - Impact (Early Modern Period)

Answer 8

• Helped Maritime trade
• Jewish financers invested in businesses, enabling economic growth.

Question 9

Indians - Reasons for Coming

Answer 9

• West Indian Company
• Ayahs: returned to England with the families they worked for and continued working for them.
• Lascars: Worked on the ships sailing between England and India and many settled in ports

Question 10

Indians - Experiences

Answer 10

• Depended on their employers
• Ayahs: lived with their families however when the children grew up, they were either passed onto other families or abandoned
• Lascars: Settled in the ports of London, Liverpool, Glasglow, Cardiff and worked on the docks.

Question 11

Africans - Reasons for Coming

Answer 11

• Forced Migration due to the transatlantic slave trade until the abolishment of the slave trade in 1807.

Question 12

Africans - Experiences

Answer 12

• Brought as servants
• Employed in many skilled jobs such as interpreters, and were paid the same wages as others.
• Some became very wealthy and were treated as equal members of society
• John Blake - trumpeter for Henry the Eighth

Question 13

Impact on Culture in Early Modern Period

Answer 13

• Fashion: Silk and other new fabrics by Huguenots
• Art: Artist such Holbein came from Germany and the Netherlands to paint royalty and other rich people
• Writing: Polydore Vergil born in Italy wrote one of the first books about English history.