Indigenous Rights
What year was the Mabo decision made?
1992
The US civil war was fought between the United States and the (blank) States?
Confederate
When did Australia become a federation?
1901
Who inspired Martin Luther King Jr?
Gandhi
What does secede mean?
withdrawal from a membership
The Day of Mourning was in which year?
1938
The Declaration of Independence stated that “all men are" what?
created equal
When did Indigenous peoples count as citizens?
1967
Which method of protest aimed to convert your opponent; to win over their mind and heart and persuade them that your point of view is right?
Non-violent protest
What word means freeing someone from the control of another?
Emancipation
In what year was the Aboriginal Tent Embassy founded?
1972
Which Republican President was elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Which two Australian states had the worse record for Indigenous rights in 1962?
QLD and WA
Name one of the methods Southern states imposed to prevent African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes, literacy tests and the “grandfather clause.”
What does Segregation mean?
setting something or someone apart from something or someone.
What type of petition did the Yolngu people send to federal parliament for land rights?
Bark petition.
On 14th June 1866, which amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in America or who had become naturalised?
14th
The first involvement of Australia as a part of the United Nations was to send military observers to which country?
Indonesia
Who decided to make a stand against Montgomery’s racially segregated bus service?
Rosa Parks
What word means execution performed by a mob?
Lynching
In the Native Title Act of 1993, Indigenous people had to prove what?
That they have had a ‘traditional connection’ with the land since 1788.
Montgomery was a small town in the Southern state of what?
Alabama
What does Terra Nulluis mean?
A Latin expression meaning "nobody's land"
In what year was the first sit-in?
1960
What does boycott mean?
to stop doing something