Climate Change
True or False: The Greenhouse Effect is an example of natural climate change
True
Identify 3 stakeholders concerned with land clearing in Queensland
Graziers
Foresters, Miners, Croppers
State Government
Environmental Activists
Indigenous Peoples
Local Councils
Where did the Frontier Wars begin?
Sydney (i.e. Port Jackson)
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolish slavery (except if as punishment for a crime)
What are two ways something can be historically significant?
•Result in change
•Reveal something about the past
•Remarkable
•Resonate
•Remembered
How does car exhaust result in climate change?
Carbon monoxide emissions results in the enhanced greenhouse effect
How much land in Queensland is used for grazing?
83%
Under the policies of protectionism, what is the difference between missions and reserves?
Missions are run by the church, reserves are run by the government
What sort of people joined the KKK?
former southern slave owners + confederate soldiers
What were two countries that were accused of hypocrisy for signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Australia & USA
What is it called when fertile areas become increasingly arid
Desertification
How does land clearing in Queensland impact the Great Barrier Reef?
Exposing nutrient rich topsoil, which goes into the waterways that run into the GBR
Identify 3 demands of the protestors at the Day of Mourning protests
•Full citizenship
•Representation in parliament
•Abolition of the Boards of Protection
•Economic equality
•Better health care
What magazine published the photo of Emmett Till's open caskett?
What was the primary purpose of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The UDHR was intended to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust & WW2 from occurring again.
How does Australia cause air pollution in India?
By exporting coal
What are three main reasons land is cleared in Queensland
grazing, cropping, forestry, mining
Over 83% of Queensland is used for grazing livestock as the conditions in many areas are too harsh for crops to survive.
Forestry, cropping and mining contribute to another 8% of clearing. Only 1% of land clearing is for urban development and infrastructure.
What are two ways the US civil rights movement influenced the Australian civil rights movement?
- the Freedom rides
- Strategy of non-violence and using media to draw attention to it
- Broadcast around the world, Aus encouraged to get their own house in order
How did Southern States justify Jim Crow laws being consistent with the Declaration of Independence
Separate but equal
ALL GROUPS IN: Define social Darwinism (best definition gets the points)
Based on Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Social Darwinism is a pseudoscience that asserts that due to “survival of the fittest”, certain groups / races become powerful in society because they are innately better.
What international agreement addressed the degradation of the Ozone layer and allowed to begin recovering.
The Montreal Protocol
What was the name of the 1999 act that initially reduced land clearing, before it was undermined in 2013.
Vegetation management Act 1999
What two things did the 1967 referendum seek to do?
- include Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in census
- Allow federal gov to make laws specifically for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people
ALL IN: define Jim Crow Laws (best definition gets the points)
the legal segregation & disenfranchisement of African Americans in the southern states.
What is a fundamental difference between the Australian & US civil rights movements?
Australia has a focus on land rights
US was built on the ongoing impacts of slavery