Whitechapel From The Iish Immigrants - Rest Irl

Question 1

Who led the fight for Irish freedom

Answer 1

Fenians

Question 2

What did the fenians do

Answer 2

Bombed clerkwell prison in 1867
Launched attacks on dynamite Saturday in 1885 (includes one on the Tower of London)

Question 3

What was founded to deal with Irish prison

Answer 3

New department of metropolitan police, special branch

Question 4

What were Jews fleeing from from 1881

Answer 4

Fleeing progroms in Russia
Many came to London

Question 5

What percentage of the population was Jewish in some Whitechapel areas

Answer 5

95%

Question 6

Jewish settlers chose to live ________ to others

Answer 6

Separately

Question 7

Why did people resent Jewish immigrants

Answer 7

They often set up successful businesses
Often employed new immigrants rather than locals to work with them

Question 8

What businesses did Jewish immigrants often run

Answer 8

Tailoring businesses on the sweatshop model

Question 9

What couldn’t other businesses compete with with the Jewish businesses

Answer 9

Prices

Question 10

What day did Jewish people work on because their holy day is Saturday

Answer 10

Sunday

Question 11

What made Jewish immigrants stand out

Answer 11

Religion, cultural rules, language

Question 12

What caused the growth of revolutionary political movements

Answer 12

Social/economic problems in Europe

Question 13

What did anarchists take control of in 1871

Answer 13

Paris

Question 14

Why did anarchists flee to London

Answer 14

They were defeated

Question 15

One leading anarchist

Answer 15

Russian guy - mikhail Bakunin

Question 16

What did some people feel London had become

Answer 16

A refuge for other nations terrorises

Question 17

Anyone with an Eastern European accent came to be seen as

Answer 17

A potential anarchist

Question 18

What id the special branch start to do

Answer 18

Monitor the activities of Eastern Europe revolutionaries

Question 19

What focused national attention on immigration

Answer 19

Unemployment
Housing shortage

Question 20

Why was the sweatshop investigation difficult

Answer 20

New immigrants didn’t speak english and the police ONLY spoke english

Question 21

What did anti-Jewish features in the newspaper lead to

Answer 21

Harassment of the Jews and street violence

Question 22

What became common against Jews

Answer 22

Anti-Semitic attitudes
Beatings

Question 23

What were people convinced about with the ripper murders

Answer 23

Committed by an Irishman or by a Jew

Question 24

What did Thomas Bernardo train as

Answer 24

A doctor in the local hospital

Question 25

What did Bernardo open

Answer 25

A school for children whose agents had died in an outbreak of infectious disease

Question 26

What did Bernardo open in 1870

Answer 26

An orphanage for boys Later he opened a girls home

Question 27

When did Bernardo die

Answer 27

1905

Question 28

What was there by the time Bernardo dies

Answer 28

Nearly 100 Bernardo’s homes nationally They care for an average of 85 children each

Question 29

What act was passed by parliament in 1875

Answer 29

The artisan dwellings act

Question 30

What did the artisan dwellings act lead to

Answer 30

A maze o courtyards and unhealthy houses being replaced with 11 new blocks of flats (Peabody estate) Named after George Peabody -he funded them

Question 31

When did Peabody estate open

Answer 31

1881 It provided 286 flats

Question 32

What was Peabody estate accommodation like + the people in them were in

Answer 32

Neat and self-contained Most People were in steady work

Question 33

What did peabody estate weekly rent start at

Answer 33

3s for a one room flat

Question 34

What’s the average weekly wage for a labourer

Answer 34

22s

Question 35

In the east of London elastase housing that were built using the Peabody funds housed…..

Answer 35

1952 people

Question 36

Why did attitudes change

Answer 36

The lin between living conditions and crime were seen more clearly

Question 37

What two acts happened in 1890

Answer 37

The houses of the working classes act The public health amendment act

Question 38

What did the houses of the working classes act open

Answer 38

Opened the way for the new London county council to begin housing development schemes to replace slums

Question 39

What did the public health amendment act do

Answer 39

Gave more power to local councils to improve toilets, paving, rubbish collection and other sanitary services

Question 41

What division of the metropolitan police were witchechapel covered by

Answer 41

The H division

Question 42

How many ordinary police officers in H division How many detectives from CID

Answer 42

500 15

Question 43

How were the police seen in Whitechapel compared to other parts of London Why

Answer 43

In a negative light Whitechapel was poor and the police were seen as upholders of unpopular government decisions rather than the law

Question 44

What did the police often have to do What did this do to their reputation

Answer 44

Put down public protests Got a reputation for heavy-handedness and violence

Question 45

What was the area each constables had to work in called

Answer 45

‘Beat’

Question 46

What dd constables have to do at night

Answer 46

Stop and question people to sk what they were up to

Question 47

What happened if a beat constables was found away from his beat OR missed a crime

Answer 47

Could be fined or dismissed

Question 48

What was work like for constables

Answer 48

Often boring & sometimes dangerous Pays not very high so it was difficult to recruit good quality policemen

Question 49

Problems for the police

Answer 49

Prostitution Alcohol Immigration - tensions between nationalities were high Confined spaces, poor lighting + multiple entries/exits to rookeries, narrow alleys and courts

Question 50

Protection rackets eg

Answer 50

Bessarabian tigers Odessians

Question 51

What did protection rackets demand

Answer 51

Protection money from small businesses

Question 52

Why was it almost impossible for the police to get enough evidence to arrest/ put protection rackets on trial

Answer 52

People were afraid to report gang members to the police in case they turned on them

Question 53

There were ….. laws by the ……. describing what the met police should do dwhen dealing with……

Answer 53

82 laws 1870s Vagrancy, lunatics, pubsm street traffic, sewage, litter, coinage, children, runaway horses, fires and accidents

Question 54

How did the H division provide some benefits

Answer 54

Hosting soup kitchens whe they were trying to get info from witnesses Looking after stray children Stopping runaway horses

Question 55

Problems for the police

Answer 55

The media Rivalry Techniques The vigilance committee Improvements after the murders

Question 56

Who was assigned to the Jack the Ripper case by the met police

Answer 56

Inspector Frederick abberline His CID team

Question 57

How was inspector Frederick abberline and his CID teams job made harder

Answer 57

300+ letters/postcards were sent to them or to newspapers by men claiming to be the murderer

Question 58

Why did journalists make investigations of their own, try to bribe police and loosen their tongues with drink

Answer 58

The police mistrusted journalists and so were starved of info

Question 59

What did journalists do to the stories

Answer 59

Sensationalise stories Make them up

Question 60

What was next to Whitechapel and have its own police force separate from the met

Answer 60

The city of London

Answer 61

The city of London

Question 62

Whitechapel was a breeding ground for…. What did this make the H divisions task like

Answer 62

Crime - from petty theft to murder Difficult

Question 63

What were many crimes linked to

Answer 63

High levels of poverty and unemployment

Question 64

By the 1870s there were ….. laws were there describing what the metropolitan police should do when dealing with a wide range of issues including….

Answer 64

82 laws Vagrancy, ‘lunatics’, pubsm street traffic, sewage, litter, coinage, children, runaway horses, fires and accidents

Question 65

What did some tasks the police were expected to perform do Example

Answer 65

Brought them intro direct conflict with Whitechapel residents Eg = taking people to the workhouse and attempting to control prostitution

Question 66

What were the benefits the H division provided

Answer 66

Hosting soup kitchens when they were trying to get info from witnesses Looking after stray children Stopping runaway horses

Question 67

Problems for the police

Answer 67

Media Police force rivalry Techniques The vigilance committee Improvements aftee the murders

Question 68

Who was assigned to the jack the ripped case by the metropolitan police

Answer 68

Inspector Frederick abberline His CID team

Question 69

How was inspector Frederick abbelrine + his CID teams task made harder

Answer 69

300+ letters/postcards sent to them OR the newspapers by men claiming to be the murderer

Question 70

Why did journalists start to conduct investigations of their own AND try to bribe police officers and loosen their tongues with drink

Answer 70

They were mistrusted by the police and so starved of info

Question 71

What did journalists sometimes di with the Jack the Ripper stories

Answer 71

Sensationalise stories Make stories up

Question 72

What was next to Whitechapel Did they share the same police force

Answer 72

City of London Had its own police force separate from the met

Question 73

What was the message the police found on a wall nearby after Catherine eddowes body is discovered

Answer 73

‘The Jews are the men that will be blamed for nothing’

Question 74

Why did comssionor warren want the message washed off before it could be photographed

Answer 74

- he didn’t want a backlash against the Jewish community - eddowes was killed in the city of London and so he maybe didn’t wasn’t to beaten to the capture of the killer by a rival force

Question 75

What was one of the biggest problems in police investigation in/around Whitechapel

Answer 75

Police rivalry