Whitechapel

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When did the great depression happen?
1973
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When did the Jack the ripper killings happen?
1888
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What was the population around this time?
30,000
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What did overcrowding lead to in terms of crime?
Theft and domestic abuse
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What did Unemployment lead to in terms of crime?
stealing and disruptive behaviour
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What did Prostitution lead to in terms of crime?
assaults, gangs and intimidating women
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What did alcoholism lead to in terms of crime?
drunk and disorderly
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What did workhouses lead to in terms of crime?
theft as people were determined not to go
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What did orphans lead to in terms of crime?
petty crime and begging
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What did immigration lead to in terms of crime?
violence
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What was the weather like?
A lot of smog due to gas fumes and smoke
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What was also a problem in Whitechapel?
Sanitation
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What is a Lodging house?
Space for homeless to sleep, sometimes worked
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Whats the peabody estate?
slums were knocked down to allow 11 blocks of flat to be built
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what act allowed this and when?
the dwelling act of 1875
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what was a workhouse like?
worse conditions than others ti deter people, worked hard about and split up from family
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What act allowed workhouses to be set up for the homeless?
Poor law amendment act of 1834
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what orphanage was set up in 1870?
Barnados
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What was Feniens?
Catholic terrorist group
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Who was assassinated in russia and when?
Emperor and in 1881
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What is anarchy?
The belief that the governments had failed to help people so should be overthrown
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What did the social democratic party enforce?When
working class and women rights in 1881
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Why was there racial hatred?
immigrants took jobs, stole and had better sweatshops
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when was the metropolitan police act set up and by who?
1829 and Robert Peel
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Why were the police hated?
Mass poverty and unemployment and police were seen to be on the rich peoples side and they had to stop riots happening
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What is a brothel?
House where men visited prostitutes
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What is a streetwalker?
Prostitue wandering streets looking for clients
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Why was it hard to catch the criminals on foot?
Smog, narrow alleyways, courts, rookeries
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When was the letter 'dear boss' received?
September 1888
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Why was there tension between the met and the city of london police?
Met rubbed off evidence in city of londons areas of patrol and they didn't agree or share any evidence
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What police techniques could they use?
Post mortems, Follow up leads, interview witnesses
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When did the double murder occur?
30th September 1888
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What wasn't invented to help police?
Fingerprinting or DNA (police couldn't tell animal blood from human blood)
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What system was set up that took peoples measurements and recorded them as a way of keeping peoples records?
Berlliton System in 1894
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When were help lines set up on phones?
1907 for met police
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When was the health improvement act?
1890
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What was the biggest crime that soared in the 1890s?
Burglary
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MJBX27

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The first card is wrong and has nothing to do with Whitechapel

Tintin1912

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Some irrelevant and incorrect cards but it covers most things on the specification.

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