successful scots
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Successful Scots
Lesson starter:1. What sort of qualities did countries
want in an immigrant?2. Why did Scots missionaries go
abroad?
Today we will…
• Understand the ways in which many Scots abroad were successful
SuccessfulScots
John Logie Baird
Went to West Indies then England
Invented TV
Katherine, Duchess of Atholl
Went to England
First Scottish woman MP
James Ramsay McDonald
England
1st Scottish Prime Minister
Allan Pinkerton
USA
Detective
Revealed plot to kill Abraham Lincoln
John Alexander McDonald
Canada
First Prime Minister of Canada
Andrew Carnegie
Made lots of money in USA
Invested in steel and coal
Provided money to build 2810 libraries in the USA
and Scotland
Govanhill library, Glasgow
Why were Scots so successful?
• Spoke English• Usually took some
money to get started• Skilled• Educated • Ambitious• Hardworking
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