Question

C.Answer the questions.
1.How were Scottish Highlanders different from other British People?
2.How did they make their living?
3.Why did the landlors want to rear sheep?
4.Why did the Highlanders have to move?
5.What happened to many of the Highlanders's homes?
6.Where did many People emigrate to?
7.When did the clearances reach their highest Point?
8.How did the Highlanders protest?

Answer 1

1.The scottish highlanders were different from the others by the facts that they we're having their own culture, they had their own language and their own customs.
2.They made their living by growing sheeps.
3.Because rearing sheeps brought them money.
4.They had to move in order to be enough space for large sheep farms.
5.Many of the highlanders homes were burnt.
6.Many people have emigrated to United States or to Canada.
7.The clearance reached its highest point between the years 1825 and 1838 when Nova Scotia received 22,000 highlanders.
8.Highlanders protested by doing riots and strikes.