OCR GCSE History B Migrants to Britain c.1250 to present overview quiz quiz

They were the only group in England who could read and write

The Church banned Christians from charging interest

They owned almost all of the farmland across the country

The King forced everyone in the kingdom to borrow from them

1066

1215

1290

1656

German merchants who came to trade through English ports

Irish refugees who fled to Britain during the Great Famine

Caribbean migrants who arrived to fill post-war labour gaps

French Protestants fleeing persecution in Catholic France

Oliver Cromwell

Edward I

Queen Elizabeth I

William the Conqueror

The Industrial Revolution ending

The Great Famine

The First World War

The Norman Conquest

To trade in wool through the English ports

To join the British army and fight overseas

To escape pogroms in the Russian Empire

To build the new railways across the country

Welcomed all migrants arriving in Britain without limit

Expelled the Irish who had settled in British cities

Founded the National Health Service for everyone

Introduced Britain's first major immigration control

Caribbean migrants who came to Britain from 1948

Irish migrants who fled the Great Famine of the 1840s

Huguenot refugees who fled persecution in Catholic France

Medieval Italian bankers who lent money to the English Crown

To fight in a war that Britain was about to enter

To fill severe post-war labour shortages

To replace the Huguenot weavers who had left Britain

To expel the Irish who had settled in British cities

The Magna Carta signed by King John

The Edict of Nantes issued in France

The 1948 British Nationality Act

The Bloody Code of harsh criminal laws

The weather and climate of the region they settled in

The price of cotton on its own and nothing else at all

The size of the British army in each different period

The economy and whether migrants were needed

Migrants always contributed economically and always faced some hostility

Migration always stayed at exactly the same scale across the whole period

There was no migration to Britain at all before the year 1900

Migrants were always expelled from the country soon after they arrived