Australia
Bandits known by this name hid along the roads in Australia holding up wagons that took gold from the mines into the towns.
What were bushrangers?
This is what Ned Kelly thought about the police in Australia.
What was that poor farmers would never be treated fairly by the police and that the government would always be on the side of the rich?
Leopold II was the king of this country and wanted to grow his country by claiming colonies all around the world.
What was Belgium?
This was a charity created by Leopold II as a way to claim the land in the Congo Basin.
What is the International African Association?
These were the first British inhabitants of Australia.
What were prisoners who were sent there instead of being imprisoned in Britain?
This is what the Australians thought about Ned Kelly.
What is some thought of him as a common criminal, but other thought of him as a hero, fighting against the cruel and unjust police and government officials?
This country quickly followed Belgium's pursuit of claiming land in both the east and west of Africa.
What was Germany?
This was the purpose of the Berlin Conference.
What was to divide all the African land fairly among the countries of Europe?
This was the name of one of the most famous bushrangers.
Who was Ned Kelly?
This is what it meant when the colony of Australia became the Commonwealth of Australia.
What is it meant that Australia would remain part of the British Empire, but the Australians would have the right to make their own laws and elect their own leaders?
The years after 1880 became known as this because so many countries were trying to gain control of African land.
What was The Scramble?
This is who Leopold hired to map out trade routes.
Who was Henry Stanley?
Who later came and populated Australia following the prisoners?
Who were free men and women from Great Britain?
Australia became a commonwealth in this year.
What is 1901?
By 1900 these 2 areas in Africa were the only 2 not claimed by a European country.
What were Liberia and Ethiopia?
This is how many Europeans viewed native African tribes.
What is they believed that the Africans were like children who needed to be watched and controlled?
Ned Kelly was taken to this city and put on trial for murder.
What was Melbourne?
What was he was convicted of murder and hung?
This is why the countries of Europe were so interested in Africa.
What is because Africa was filled with gold, silver, limestone, rubber plants, and wide fields that were perfect for cotton, coffee, and tea?
Give 1 result of the Berlin conference.
What is
- European countries began to draw lines around new colonies, they often drew lines so they divided friendly African tribes from each other and locked hostile tribes together inside the same country borders?
-The countries of Europe took power away from the African tribal chiefs and ignored the customs and traditions of these tribes who had lived in Africa for 1000's of years?