Source Analysis Skills
A source created during the time of an event is called this.
What is a primary source?
The British established the first colony in Australia at this place in 1788.
What is Sydney Cove?
Historians use this term to describe organised fighting between Aboriginal groups and colonisers across Australia.
What are the Frontier Wars?
This type of source is created after an event has happened.
What is a secondary source?
The Gold Rush took off in this decade.
What is the 1850s?
Historians use this skill to decide whether a source is trustworthy or useful.
What is reliability?
This doctrine wrongly claimed Australia belonged to nobody before British arrival.
What is Terra Nullius?
This Governor of Western Australia led the party involved in the Pinjarra Massacre.
Who is James Stirling?
This term describes whether information in a source is accurate and dependable.
What is reliability?
People who searched for gold were commonly known by this name.
What are diggers?
What is message?
James Cook "discovered" Australia in this year.
When is 1770?
This event in Western Australia in 1834 involved Governor James Stirling and deadly violence against the Bindjareb Noongar people.
What is the Pinjarra Massacre?
Knowing who created a source helps historians understand its this.
What is perspective?
The Victorian gold rush caused rapid growth in this Australian city.
What is Melbourne?
When a source only shows one side of an event, historians say it may contain this.
What is bias?
This Aboriginal resistance fighter led attacks against British settlers around Sydney.
Who is Pemulwuy?
This is the main reason historians must treat colonial written accounts of frontier violence with caution when reconstructing events like the Pinjarra Massacre.
What is that these accounts are often biased, written from a colonial perspective, and may omit or distort Indigenous experiences and perspectives?
Historians examine both the usefulness and this of a source.
What are limitations?
This rebellion at Ballarat in 1854 protested against mining licences and government control.
What is the Eureka Stockade?
The background information, circumstances, and setting of a specific time or event
What is historical context?
This was one major impact of colonisation on Aboriginal peoples.
What is loss of land/culture/lives?
This describes how historians’ understanding of frontier violence has changed over time.
What is a shift from colonial accounts to the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives and new evidence?
Historians may disagree about whether an event should be described as a “battle” or a “massacre.” This historical concept is known as this.
What is contestability?
One major long-term effect of the gold rush was this increase in Australia.
What is population growth/migration/democracy?