National 5 History: Unit 1 Migration & Empire- Scottish Emigration PULL FACTORS
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- Scottish Emigration PULL FACTORS
- Oppertunities
- Gold was discovered
- There was lots of land available, particularly in the American west and in Canada
- Transport
- Invention of the steamship reduced the time and cost to travel
- The time travel across the Atlantic
- 1914= around 1 week
- 1850=6 weeks
- Religion
- David Livingstone
- Doctor & explorer
- Made first links with malaria and mosquitos
- Doctor & explorer
- Alexander Duff
- Set up Madras college in India
- Dr Jane Watson
- Set up schools in South Africa
- Some emigrants hoped to persuade people in other lands who were not Christians to join the Christian religion.
- These people were called missionaries as it was their 'Mission' to spread the word of the Lord
- David Livingstone
- Persuasion
- Relations, family and friends wrote letters back telling of great success
- Newspapers ran adverts describing the better lives waiting for those who would emigrate.
- Stories of great wealth being accumulated – people like Andrew Carnegie
- Emigration Help
- Landowners
- Colonel Gorden evicted 1770 people and failed to fund passage to Canada properly
- Helped fund people as they didn't want them on their land
- Duke of Hamilton & Lord Selkirk
- Government Money
- 1880s £10,000 given to help highlanders emigrate
- Overseas Settlement Commitee, helping ex-servicemen overseas
- Empire Settlement Act 1922- £3 million a year to help travel
- Charities
- Barnardos
- Young Men Christian Association
- Sent men to former colonies between WW1 and WW2
- William Quarrier
- Sent orphans to Canada for a better life
- He fiunded nearly 7,000 children in total
- Sent orphans to Canada for a better life
- Colonial Governments
- Gave talks & leaflets/posters advertising their land
- Landowners
- Oppertunities
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