c: tensions in whitechapel

the irish population in expanded ……… and in the first instance they were mostly …..

rapidly in the east end from 1840s, young men who came to london with plans to move to america but then ran out of money

the irish settled ….. and made their living as …

near the river, navigators or ‘navvies’, doing jobs on canals, roads and railways, or as dockers on the river thames

…… was common within the irish and they were not …..

violence, well liked

by the ………… some irish nationalists were ……………., led by ……….. and when they organised a ……………… there as a huge surge in …………

late 19th centure, demanding freedom from rule by the UK, Catholic Fenians, bomb attack on clerkenwell prison in dec 1867, anti-irish and catholic sentiment

to counter irish terrorism, a new

department of the met police, known as special branch, was created

there was lots of eastern European jewish immigrants because

in 1881, the russian tsar alexander II was assasinated and a jew was blamed leading to a wave of pogroms in russia, poland and germany causing many to flee to london

by ……. parts of whitechapel were ……. jewish

1888, 95%

jewish settlers were widely …………….. for ….

resented by the local population, their success in setting up a business, their acceptance of lower wages and selling cheaper products because they were desperate, they could work Sundays because their holy days were saturdays, religious and cultural traditions meant they stood out and not all of them spoke english

as tensions between immigrants and local populations over …………………, …….. of jewish people became more common

housing and jobs increased, anitsematic attitudes and beatings

when the ripper murders happened, imaginary sketches of jack the ripper showed

stereotyped caricatures of jews, with hooked noses, dark beards and felt hats

two………… were formed to look into ………….. but they changed little

parliamentary committees, rising tension in the east end

…. was growing in popularity across ……., it is a movement that ………….

anarchy, Europe, opposes all forms of organised government

in …. anarchists and other …………. briefly took control of ……… but then the revolution failed and a lot of the leaders …………, leading to some people in london fear the ………..

1871, revolutionaries, paris, fled to london, growth of terrorism, especially among the eastern European communities there

in ……, … began an undercover operation to monitor that activities of …………

1893, special branch, eastern european revolutionaries

….. ideas were also spreading and in …….. the ………… was the first ……………, its leaders, sometimes known as ……. wanted a revolution to bring down the……

socialist, 1881, social democratic federation, socialist party set up in Britain, radicals, the existing capitalist system

the SDF was involved in the ……………. that led to the ………. and socialist saw the police as ……………

Trafalgar square demonstration of 1887, the public face of a government that cared nothing for downtrodden people