Colonisation General
An item or artefact that comes directly from the historical period being studied.
Primary resource
A disease that affected almost 90% of the Aboriginal people in the Sydney area when the First Fleet arrived in Australia.
Smallpox?
This event increased the population of the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales greatly as people came to seek their fortune.
What is the Gold Rush?
These people came to Australia in large numbers during the Gold Rush and were subjected to severe racism and disrespect.
The Chinese gold miners
I claimed Australia for England in 1770.
Captain James Cook
Someone who came to Australia as a prisoner from England or another part of Europe during 1788-1900.
A convict?
The name given to the conflicts between Aboriginal People and the colonisers during the colonisation period.
The Frontier Wars
Gold Miners built a barricade and fought with officials over miner's rights and licence restrictions.
What is the Eureka Stockade?
People from Iran and Afghanistan who assisted with the exploration of the early colony providing animals to travel across the desert.
The cameleers
I came to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 (18 years after James Cook) and set up the first colony.
Governor Arthur Phillip
People who came to Australia during the period of colonisation who was not a prisoner.
Free settlers?
People from one country coming and taking over another country from the original inhabitants and creating new settlements.
Colonisation
John Macarthur and the military of the colony took over the management of the colony from Governor William Bligh and put him under house arrest. It is said to be because of the trade in rum but it was more about issues of power and wealth.
What is the Rum Rebellion?
People tricked into coming to Australia or stolen from their homelands to work in the cane fields.
The South Pacific Islanders
I was the first Aboriginal man to visit Europe and return. He was born on the south shore of the Parramatta River around 1764
Woollarawarre Bennelong
People who took over Government land without permission and created successful farming land during colonisation.
Squatters?
A well known Aboriginal massacre where over 20 Aboriginal men, women and children were murdered. Seven of the murderers were the first white people to be hanged for murdering Aboriginal people in Australia during colonisation.
Myall Creek Massacre
What is the Castle Hill Rebellion or the Battle of Vinegar Hill Rebellion?
Irish convicts escaped from a prison farm and tried to create a rebellion so they could steal ships and return to Ireland. Nine of the convicts were executed for their role in the failed rebellion.
Who were the people that the Government believed that we gathered together at church meetings to plot a rebellion against the government.
The Irish
I was a First Fleet convict transported to Australia. I was credited with the first successful cultivation of hops in Australia around the start of the 19th century. First officially brewing beer in Australia in 1790
James Squire
People who competed with rich squatters for farming land. These people were often not wealthy and struggled to survive.
Selectors
What are some of the impacts of colonisation on the Aboriginal people? (There are 5!)
Illness, conflict, dispossession, loss of cultural identity, loss of traditional lands and practises.
A sporting team that toured England in 1868 which was the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas.
The first International Aboriginal cricket team
This group of immigrants formed the largest group of non-British or Irish immigrants from Europe during colonisation. They came to grow vineyards and make wine.
The Germans
I am an Australian bushranger and leading member of the Gardiner–Hall gang. He and his associates carried out many raids across New South Wales, from Bathurst to Forbes, south to Gundagai and east to Goulburn
Ben Hall