Industrial Revolution
This invention by James Watt made steam engines much more efficient.
What is the steam engine?
In 1788, this fleet of ships arrived at Botany Bay carrying convicts.
What is the First Fleet?
The colonisation of Australia had devastating impacts on this group of people.
Who are First Nation peoples?
The discovery of this in the 1850s led thousands of people, known as “diggers,” to migrate to Australia in search of wealth.
What is Gold?
These three men — Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth — were the first Europeans to cross this natural barrier near Sydney in 1813.
What are the Blue Mountains?
Which British industry was the first to be transformed during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the clothing industry.
This British naval captain claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770.
Who is Captain Cook?
Some First Nation people assisted local authorities with capturing escaped convicts and bushrangers by 'reading' the land they were known as?
Who were Trackers?
This Australian colony was the first to officially announce the discovery of payable gold in 1851.
What is New South Wales.
These two explorers attempted to cross Australia from south to north but died on the return journey in 1861.
Who were Burke and Wills?
The Industrial Revolution began in this country in the late 18th century.
What is England?
This was the main reason Britain sent convicts to Australia instead of keeping them in British prisons.
What is prison overcrowding?
The Battle of One Tree Hill or Meewah was led by?
Who is Multugerra?
This 1854 rebellion by gold miners at Ballarat protested against high licence fees and government authority.
What is the Eureka Stockade?
The expeditions of explorers often ignored the knowledge of this group, who had been navigating the land for tens of thousands of years.
Who were First Nation peoples?
This major social change saw people moving from the countryside to cities to find factory work.
What is Urbanisation?
In 1808, this event became the only successful military coup in Australian history, when Governor William Bligh was overthrown.
What is the Rum Rebellion?
In the Battle of Parramatta, in March 1797, who led an army of 100 local warriors against the settlement at Parramatta.
Who is Pemulwuy?
The name of the largest Gold Nugget ever found.
What was the Welcome Stranger?
The journeys of explorers like Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth, Hume and Hovell helped open up land for this controversial practice, which often displaced Aboriginal communities.
What is squatting or farming?
What is Transportation to colonies?
These settlers illegally occupied large areas of Aboriginal land for farming and grazing, and later gained wealth and influence in colonial society.
Who were squatters
This term describes the British belief that Australia was “empty land” that could be taken without treaties or payment.
What is terra nullius?
This man was elected leader of the Eureka Stockade and would later go on to ha.ve a career in politics
Who was Peter Lalor?
This was the main reason Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth wanted to cross the Blue Mountains.
What is to find more grazing land for farming and livestock?