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🩸🔪Whitechapel - The People🔪🩸 Flashcards

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Who was charles booth

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a buisness man who conducted a survey on living conditions in london

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why did charles booth conduct his survey?

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booth wanted to see if the reports on london poverty were as bad as they said (he thought they were exagerated)

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how many reasearches did charles booth imploy

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80

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how did charles booth start his survey

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he defined the poverty line

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how did charles booth define the poverty line

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he said that poverty was less than £1 a week for a family of 5

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according to charles booth, how much of london was living in poverty?

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30%

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what did charles booth do once he had finished his research

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he published it into a series of books

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what was the name of charles booth’s series of books

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‘the life and labours of the people in london’

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when did charles booth publish his book

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1889

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what did charles booth hope to do with his research

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to change people’s veiws on poverty and prove that poverty was not a choice

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what is a rookery

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a place with lots of doss houses that was often overcrowded

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give an example of a rookery

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flower and dean street

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how many doss houses were there on flower and dean street in 1871

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31

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how many people were there staying on flower and dean street in 1871

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902

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what is a doss house

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a really cheap lodging house

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how old were the doss houses in flower and dean street

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they dated back to 1600

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how far apart were the houses in flower and dean street

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16 feet

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give and example of poor sanitation in flower and dean street

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the toilets were buckets outside

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give 4 facts about how awful flower and dean street was

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  1. overcrowded
  2. really old buildings
  3. crowded buildings
  4. lack of sanitation
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how much did it cost for an evening stay in flower and dean street

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4 pence

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why did people not stay in flower and dean street for long

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they needed to move on to find work

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why was there lots of job insecurity in flower and dean street?

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most jobs paid poorly and were only for short periods of time

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give an example of a job that a person living on flower and dean street might have

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working on the docks

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give an example of how poorly paid people living on flower and dean street were

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they were paid as little aas 12 shillings a week

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what was flower and dean street's reputation?
it had a reputation for attracting the workst thives, drunkards and prostitues
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why did flower and dean street habe a bad reputation?
because of the poverty
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why did the doss houses on flower and dean street attract crimingals
you could stay there to avoid detection from the police
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why did the low pay in flower and dean street increase crime
many were forced to resort to stealing or prostituion to get by
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how did charles booth describe flower and dean street
a vicious, semi criminal area
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why were people concerned about the levels of crime on flower and dean street
they thought that honset people would be corrupted by the criminal underlcass
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where was the ten bells pub
near flower and dean street
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what was the ten bells pub like
it was rife with crime, but also provided a hot meal and warmth in the winter
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how did those living in doss houses veiw the ten bells pub?
they saw it as a relief
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why was drink a huge problem in whitechapel
people were trying to forget their troubles
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why did drink lead to increased crime
it led people to commiting crimes but also made someone more likely to be the victim of a crime
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what kinds of people could you expect to find in the ten bells pub?
theives and prostitues
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what link does the ten bells pub have to the ripper murders?
Mary Kelly was seen drinking there the night she was killed
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when was the poor law passsed
1834
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what was the por law
it stated that if somone could not afford a place of residence, they could go the the workhouse
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what were conditions like in the workhouses
they were awful
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give 5 examples of the bad conditions in workhouses
1. families seperated 2. strict routines 3. awful food 4. deliberatlly hard beds 5. intensive labour
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why were workhouse conditions so bad
they were deliberataly bad because people thought the poor would choose the workhouse over 'hard work'
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what is a casual ward
a workhouse where you only stay for short periods of time
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give 3 facts about the casual ward in whitechapel
1. inmates were not paid wage 2. they were provided with a basic meal and bed 3. they were maid to do boring and repetitive e.g picking oakum
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how did people veiw going into the workhouse
it was seen as shameful
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why was going into the workhouse seen as shameful
because it meant relying on charity
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what was the impact of shaming around workhouses
it meant people would be more likely to turn to crime than to go into the workhouse
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what was anual death rate in the area where the peabody estate was built before it was built?
50 people in every 1000 (this was double the london average)
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when was the peabody estate bought
1876
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who built the peabody estate
the peabody trust
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what was the peabody trust
a charity set up by a rich american banker
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what happend in the peabody estate
the slum was cleared and quality flats were built
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give 2 positives about the peabody estate
1. the walls were made of brick to prevent lice 2. the residents shared bathrooms and kitchens
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when was the construction of the peabody esrate finished
1881
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how many flats were there in the peabody estate
287
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was rent affordable in the peabody estate
no - and if you could not pay the rent you were immediately thrown out
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what was the impact of the peabody estate?
it shows how improvements in one area lead to overcrowiding in another - this means that criminals and ordianry people are pusherd closer in society
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list the 4 factors that affected crime in whitechapel
1. lodging houses and pubs 2. prostitues 3.the residuum 4.alchohol
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how did lodging houses and pubs affect crime in whitechapel?
the overcrowding pushed ordinary people and criminals closer together
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why did prostitution affect crime in whitechapel
it was not technically illegal, but it was a senistive subject for the police as it was seen as a social problem that needed to be monitored carefully
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how many prostitues were there in whitechapel in 1888
1200
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how did the residuum affect crime in whitechapel
the residuum were supposed to be people that were 'born criminal' and therefore unredeemable. this caused a lot of fear
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how did alchohol affect crime and whitechapel
it made people more likely to commit crime, but it also made the more likely to be victims of crime
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give 4 groups that lived in whitechapel
irish jewish socialist anarchist
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why were jewish people attracted the whitechapel
because of the availablitly of jobs and accommodation
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how many jewish people arrived in london in the 1880s looking for work?
30,000
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give an example of a jewish community in whitechapel
berner's street
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why did jewish people protest against their working conditions
they worked for longer hours for less pay
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when did the jewish people start to violently protest their working conditions
1889
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how many jewish people took part in peaceful strikes to try and improve their working conditions
10000
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give 3 reasons why jewish people where treated with suspicion by other residents of whitechapel
1. there was a languade barrier 2. cultural differneces 3. the media played on stereotypes
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how did the media affect jewish people in whitechapel?
it made them more likely to be victims of hate crimes due the the media's use of stereotypes
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how did jewish people in whitechapel try to solve their problems
without involving the police
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why were jewish people in whitechapel suspicious of the police?
they had been badly treated by police in russia and poland
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when did irish immigrtation the england start
1800s
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what jobs were dominated by irish people
dock workers
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what did increased irish immigration to england cuase
'Fenian Irish Nationalism'
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what was 'Fenian Irish Nationalism'
the beleif that ireland should become independant from britain
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why were irish people the target of suspicion in whitechapel
because they were roman catholic
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when did a small bombing campaign started by Fenians take place
1884
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give 2 examples of places that were bombed by Fenians
gower street and trafalgar square
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how did socialism arrive in england
it was brought over by people from eastern europe
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give an example of a socialist newspaper from whitchapel
the 'workers friend'
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who produced the 'workers friend'
jewish people on berner street
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who was worried about socialism in london
rich factory owners
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what was the result of fear of socialism in whitechapel
many were arrested or kept under surveilance
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when did anarchism begin to devlop in london
the 1880s
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who brought anrachism to london
russian immigrants
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how did the english press repsond to anarchism in whitechapel
they whipped up fear
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how the the press create fear around anrachism in whitechapel
they blamed unsolved murders on an 'underground anarchist movement'

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