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📜 History
⛵ Migration and Empire, 1830–1939
PlayableWhy Scots left, where they went, and who came to Scotland.
Why Scots emigrated
Highland Clearances, poverty, potato blight, push & pull factors
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Emigration to Canada, USA, Australia & NZ
Where Scots went and what tempted them there
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Scots overseas and their impact
Business, education, religion and politics around the Empire
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Immigration into Scotland
Irish, Italian and Lithuanian communities
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⚓ The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770–1807
Preview — browse notesA serious and important topic. Browse the key areas below.
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- The triangular trade: Ships sailed from Britain to West Africa with goods, carried enslaved Africans to the Caribbean (the Middle Passage), and returned with sugar, cotton and tobacco.
- Conditions on the ships: Enslaved people were packed tightly below deck with little food, air or sanitation; disease and death were common.
- Plantation life: Long hours of forced labour, harsh punishments, and families separated through sale.
- Resistance: Day-to-day resistance (working slowly, breaking tools), running away, and revolts such as Saint-Domingue (1791).
- Abolition campaigns: Campaigners like Wilberforce, Clarkson and Equiano used petitions, boycotts and evidence. The trade was abolished in 1807.
📜 Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–1939
Preview — browse notesHow democracy failed in Germany and how the Nazis kept control.
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- The Weimar Republic: A new democracy blamed for the 'stab in the back', weakened by Article 48 and proportional representation.
- Treaty of Versailles: Germany lost land, its army was limited to 100,000, it accepted war guilt and paid reparations — causing anger.
- Rise to power: The Depression, propaganda, Hitler's speeches and backroom deals made him Chancellor in January 1933.
- Control: The Gestapo, SS, concentration camps, censorship and propaganda under Goebbels.
- Social & economic policies: Hitler Youth, policies on women and the Church, persecution of Jews, rearmament and public works to cut unemployment.
More National 5 subjects
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🏔️ Geography
Landform formation, map skills, and explaining human impacts.
📖 English
RUAE word choice, imagery, own words, and critical essay paragraphs.
🦉 Philosophy
Arguments, moral theories, and knowledge & doubt.
🗳️ Modern Studies
Democracy, social issues, international issues, and source skills.
🇩🇪 German
Directed writing, word order, tenses, and reading for detail.