National 5 History: Unit 2 Migration & Empire- Scottish Emigration PUSH
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- Scottish Emigration PUSH
- Agricultural Depression
- A downturn in money made from land & fishing
- Wet weather
- Machinery cut down worker needed
- Many people moved to towns & citites
- High rents in the country
- Scottish potato famine
- A downturn in money made from land & fishing
- Highland Clearances
- Rent increased rapidly in the Highlands
- Many people were evicted and had their emigration fares paid for them
- Landowners decided they would make more money with grouse shooting/deer hunting
- The people were increasingly seen as a burden on the land. The landowners were looking for profit and the people did not give enough in rent of surplus crops.
- Rent increased rapidly in the Highlands
- Poverty & Unemployment
- Homelessness was high in the 1800s
- There was a series of crop failures meant people were hungry or had no income
- Lack of opportunities after first world war
- The potato blight of 1847 spread to Scotland and left thousands of Highlanders close to starvation.
- Prisoners
- Up until 1867 Prisoners convicted of serious crimes were often sent to Austrailia
- Many convicts after serving their time stayed out there & their families came to join them
- Up until 1867 Prisoners convicted of serious crimes were often sent to Austrailia
- Other
- Wages were low for the unskilled.
- Living conditions were awful in the slums of the cities.
- Working conditions were bad, with people, like navvies and miners, working long hours and often in dangerous conditions.
- Agricultural Depression
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