Rural-to-Urban Migration Changing Britain Quiz

In nineteenth-century Britain, what does the term ‘rural-to-urban migration’ mean?

Which was a main pull factor drawing people to towns and cities during rural-to-urban migration in nineteenth-century Britain?

Which change in farming made some rural workers more likely to leave the countryside for towns?

What important change did the 1851 census show about where people lived in Britain?

How did large-scale rural-to-urban migration affect living conditions in many nineteenth-century towns?

Which social group grew rapidly because of rural-to-urban migration in industrial Britain?

A family leaves a small farming village in the 1840s and moves to Manchester, where the father works in a cotton mill and the whole family shares a cramped back-to-back house. What does this example show about rural-to-urban migration?