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Whitechapel Revision (What were housing and living conditions like in…

- - - - Here, you should give 2 details and back these features up with a detail. This will be completely from your own knowledge
  - - - Explain + Opinion + Accuracy + Purpose. Explain what the source is actually saying, quote a specific part to show your understanding, and use inferring vocabular "Source A implies..."
        Next, express your opinion whether both sources are useful, compare which is more useful "to a historian". Accuracy, state whether certain parts of the source are accurate, or misleading by using your own knowledge. Purpose, talk about what it is (poster, diary, record etc.) and whether this is positive or negative to a historian. Talk about who made the source and at what time the source was created and whether this is positive or negative to a historian.
  - - - Follow each box, keep the question as simple as possible, and make sure to remember many sources used at the time and use the most relevant source. This is the only time when you need your own knowledge. Examples of sources include:
        
        Autopsy Reports - Medical examinations of the dead body to find out how the victim died.
        
        Charles Booth's maps - used to study industry, poverty and religion and divided this into different areas on a map.
        
        Police records - used to show different names of officers, how many officers were on patrol at the time and what department they were based in
        
        Old Bailey Records - This was a court used for the more serious crimes
        
        Newspapers - Different newspapers will show different views (mostly newspapers designed for the wealthy in comparison to newspapers designed for the poor)
- - - - Irish would accept jobs with lower wages, as they were in competition with poorer English residents.
    - - The Irish were in competition with the English for the same houses, which resulted in rent prices increasing making it less affordable
    - - Irish were mostly Catholic, English were mainly Protestant. Irish wanted greater freedom for Ireland, and setup terrorist groups for this.
    - - After the potato famine in the 1840's, this caused starvation.
  - - - After an assasination in Russia, the Jewish were blamed for this so had to flee to other parts of Europe.
    - - The Jewish started businesses, which the English claimed as sweatshops, but many were jealous because they were successful, and it was easy to find work as a jew.
    - - Jewish also had struggle for housing like the Irish and ENglish, but areas of Whitechapel would have up to 95% Jewish people, creating a community.
    - - Jews stood out, they were slow to learn English, spoke different languages, and were happy to work on Sunday as saturday was their holy rest day, giving them an advantage over other businesses.