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