Who was the first European to "discover" Australia?
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Arthur Phillip
Who was the governor of the original English colony?
100
About 160,000 convicts.
How many convicts were sent from Great Britain to Australia?
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No one believed the gold was payable.
Why wasn't there a gold rush prior to 1851?
100
They'd sometimes sleep in caves. For food they would kill animals or use the animals skin to make clothing and shelter.
What are the aspects of Aboriginal life in the 1700s?
200
James Cook
Who was the first Englishmen to "discover" Australia?
200
Life in the colony was sad and a rough time.
What was life like in the colony?
200
Marines, wives of marines, American, Corsican, French, Hong Kong, Chinese, West Indian, Indian, and African.
What groups made up the convicts of Australia?
200
There was racism and a lot of discrimination toward Chinese people.
How was life on the Gold Fields?
200
The spiritual being with the land.
What was aboriginal life based on?
300
The First Fleet carried 780 convicts who landed in Botana Bay, because the prisons were overflowing.
What is the First Fleet?
300
The Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804 was a rebellion by convicts against colonial authority in the Castle Hill area of the British colony of New South Wales.
What is the Castle Hill Rebellion?
300
The convicts rarely served their full term and could qualify for ticket of leave, certificate of freedom, conditional pardon, or even absolute pardon.
What was the policy of good behavior?
300
A policy that gave miners the right to mine in Australia.
What is the Australia Gold License Policy?
300
Nobody's Land
What is Terra Nullius?
400
The second fleet was a more brutal experience. Convicts were brutally assaulted. 25% of the convicts were killed.
How was the First Fleet and Second Fleet different?
400
20% of the convicts were women.
How many convicts were women?
400
A thief that would steal expensive things from British Colonist.
What is a Bushranger?
400
The Europeans came to Australia and forced their culture into aborigines and Australia. By destroying their land and trying to re-create Australian culture.
How did European arrival in "Australia" affect aboriginal life?
500
I think Mark Twain's quote, "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice" means...
What do you think Mark Twains quote means?
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Botana Bay
Where were early boy convicts sent originally in Australia?