The closure of which shipyard prompted the Jarrow March?

• A. Harland and Wolff
• B. Palmer's Shipyard
• C. Vickers
• D. John Brown & Company

Answer: (B)

The key idea is how a single large employer can shape a town’s fate during a Depression. When Palmer’s Shipyard in Jarrow shut in 1934, the town lost its main source of jobs, leaving thousands unemployed and poverty spreading quickly. That sudden collapse of a vital local employer became the immediate spark for the Jarrow March, as unemployed workers and supporters decided to travel to London to demand work and government action. The other shipyards listed were major yards elsewhere in the UK and their closures did not strike at Jarrow’s own economy in the same way, so they aren’t the trigger for this protest.