Whitechapel

Question 1

Who waas the met police?

Answer 1

Government directed police force

Question 2

The requirements for the met police

Answer 2

Had to be 5”7+
Carry out foot patrols 4-10 miles a day

Question 3

Who was Sir Charles Warren

Answer 3

A commissioner and formal army General appointed in 1886

Question 4

What werr prisoners told

Answer 4

Hard labour, hard fare and hard board

Question 5

What did Warren do in 1887?

Answer 5

Ban a unemployment protest due for 13th Nov 1887

Question 6

What happened after Warren’s ban?

Answer 6

Protesters ignored the ban and Warren deployed police along with 1000 soldiers, many injured and one died

Question 7

Why did Warren lose his job?

Answer 7

Failure to catch Jack the Ripper

Question 8

When was pentonville prison built

Answer 8

1842

Question 9

How long did prisoners spend in separate cells

Answer 9

23 hours a day

Question 10

What was the ‘ beat ‘?

Answer 10

Constables would patrol a set route of streets to deter crime

Question 11

What were the living conditions like?

Answer 11

Walls were thick to stop communicatiom
Prisoners worked in their cells
Only allowed out for a short period of time but could not speak or see one another

Question 12

When was the Criminal Investigation Department set up?

Answer 12

1878

Question 13

What did these bad conditionsn lead to?

Answer 13

High levels of mental illness
Eg depression, psychosis and high suicide rates.

Question 14

What was the lower classes opinions on the Met

Answer 14

That they only worked for the upper or middle class

Question 15

When die public executions stop

Answer 15

1868

Question 16

What were lodging housed?

Answer 16

Lodgers paid nightly fee for bed and access to a kitchen. A quarter of Whitechapel population lived in lodging houses

Question 17

Why werr american colonies not used anymore?

Answer 17

War of independance 1783

Question 18

What is a rookery?

Answer 18

Slum areas where most housing was located, extremely overcrowded with poor sanitatian

Question 19

What was the peabody estate?

Answer 19

11 blocks of flats opened to combat lodging houses

Question 20

Who were the tolpuddle martyrs

Answer 20

Farm laborours in dorset village called tolpuddle

Question 21

What was there an old law on made by the government?

Answer 21

Sailors were not allowed to swear an oath

Question 22

Where did young orphans go after 1880?

Answer 22

Barnardos homes

Question 23

What did george loveless do?

Answer 23

He asked for higher wages

Question 24

What did the labourers set up?

Answer 24

Friendly party/society

Question 25

How many years did loveless and the others get sentenced to australia

Answer 25

7 years

Question 26

What were some causes for crime in Whitechapel?

Answer 26

Overcrowding, low income levels, unreliable work and high levels of prostitution.

Question 27

Why did Irish immigrants move to London and when

Answer 27

1840s, wanted to go to USA but ended up in London

Question 28

Why were executions not effective?

Answer 28

They were breeding grounds for crime + very disorganised.

Question 29

Where did most of the Irish work?

Answer 29

Navvies (labourers who built roads, railways or canals) or dockers

Question 30

What were the Irishs rep?

Answer 30

Drunk and violent, terrorists (fenians)

Question 31

What were peoples opi ions on the government for treating the tolpuddle martyrs so badly

Answer 31

They didnt like it much and so 100000 people occurred campaigning against the governemnt

Question 32

What were most policemens backgrounds?

Answer 32

Farming and labour

Question 33

Why did many Russian and Polish Jews come to Britain in the 1880s?

Answer 33

They were fleeing persecution after Tsar Alexander IIs assassination in 1881

Question 34

Hat happened in 1842 to do with scotland yard

Answer 34

16 officers were set up in scotland yard as plain clothes detectives

Question 35

What did John Howard and Elizabeth Fry do?

Answer 35

Work to reform prisons

Question 36

When were women recruited

Answer 36

1920s

Question 37

What was the H division?

Answer 37

Constables given a set route in Whitechapel to patrol, regularly had to report to their sergeant and recorded everything in diary.

Question 38

When we the police training college set up?

Answer 38

1947

Question 39

What has new technology led to in the police?

Answer 39

More specialised divisions

Question 40

When were the Whitechapel murders?

Answer 40

Autumn 1888

Question 41

What was set up in 1901 in the police

Answer 41

Fingerprints branch in scotland yard

Question 42

What police force had a rivalry with the Met police?

Answer 42

City of London police

Question 43

When was homosexuality illegal until

Answer 43

1967, but the person bad to be 21+

Question 44

Whitechapel overlapped…

Answer 44

Both the city of London police force and the Met police.

Question 45

How were Jack the Rippers victims murdered?

Answer 45

Strangled and mutilated

Question 46

What was the problem with the media during the Whitechapel murders?

Answer 46

They encouraged people to come forward to them causing hoax letters and theories which all had to be investigated.

Question 47

Media coverage also stirred up… because….

Answer 47

Racial hatred, media convinced English man could not of committed such awful crimes

Question 48

What was the vigilance committee?

Answer 48

A group of people who took law into their own hands

Question 49

What did the Met police do for evidence?

Answer 49

Took photos of bodies (but not of crime)

Question 50

What was the problem with flower and Dean Street?

Answer 50

902 lodgers in 31 doss houses, streets only 16ft wide

Question 51

Qhen was the jack the ripper cases

Answer 51

31st August-9th novermber 1888