GB Immigration and attitudes to ethnic minorities 1918-39

British Nationality and Status Aliens Act 1914 - positive or negative impact?

• Positive

• Negative

Aliens Act 1905 introduced passports

• True

• False

Aliens Act 1919 was more lenient than the 1905 Act

• True

• False

In what year were there race riots across Britain

• 1914

• 1915

• 1918

• 1919

NUS demanded jobs of ‘non-white’ sailors be given to white sailors in 1919

• True

• False

1925 Special Restrictions Act meant that seaman needed 5 pounds in saving to reside in the UK

• True

• False

Indian Seamen’s Union protest in Liverpool was about

• Needing savings to enter the country

• Poor treatment

• Alien status and having to report to police

• Necessity to provide a passport on arrival

Joint Council to Promote Understanding between White and Coloured People in Britain and the League of Coloured Peoples founded in 1931 took which actions

• Fight racial discrimination

• Vandalise property

• Raise financial aid

• Riot in the streets

WASU (West African Student Union) 1934 protested against what international incident

• Civil War in Rwanda

• Nazi mistreatment of non Aryans

• Italy's invasion of Abyssinia / Ethiopia

• Pan Africanism

The BUF (British Union of Fascists) in 1936 had limited impact but who was their leader?

• Neville Chamberlain

• Oswald Mosley

• Paul Robeson