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100

The name of the collection of boats which landed in botany bay starting British colonisation of Australia?

What is the first fleet?

100

The term used to describe the conflicts and violence between European settlers and Indigenous people during colonisation

What is the Frontier Wars?

100

The year the six Australian colonies officially unite to form the Commonwealth of Australia 

What is 1901?

100

Smallpox, measles, tuberculosis are examples that lead to deaths of Aboriginal people.

What is disease?

100

Australia's first Indigenous 'diplomat'

Who is Bennelong?

200
The term used to justify the British claim that Australia was a "land belonging to no one?"

What is Terra Nullius?

200

The name of the massacre that took place in 1838, involving the killing of at least 28 Wirrayaraay people by a group of stockmen

What is Myall Creek Massacre?

200

The year the first fleet landed

What is 1788?

200

There are at least 270 documented cases of these over a 140 year period

What is massacre?

200

A resistance leader who attacked farms sporadically and wreaked havoc on British settlers.

Who is Pemulwuy?

300

The sentence a judge gave you if you were being sent to Australia

What is transaportation?

300

Why is the death toll from frontier wars inconclusive?

Many instances were covered up or not reported

300
The year the White Australia Policy was Introduced?

What is 1901?

300

These stopped Aboriginal people accessing food sources.

What is agriculture and fencing?

300

An important Wurundjeri leader in the mid-19th century who helped his people face the loss of their traditional way of life, and achieved his vision for an Aboriginal settlement at Coranderrk.

Who is Simon Wonga?
400

Give two reasons for Australian Colonisation

What is overcrowding prisons, British imperial glory, acquisition of resources

400

The name given to Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families

What is The Stolen Generation?

400

In which year did the last ship of convicts arrive?

What is 1868?

400

When Aboriginal people were forced to work in jobs they did not choose.

What is slavery?

400
What were some of the ways Indigenous People reacted to the arrival of the British? (at least 3)
  1. Curiosity and Caution
  2. Conflict and Resistance: As settlers began to encroach on their lands, many Aboriginal groups responded with resistance.
  3. Some were welcoming, showing good fishing/hunting spots etc. There are documents recounting dancing
  4. Some developed relations (later on) - trade and barter
500

The first Governor of New South Wales

Who is Governor Arthur Phillip

500

Aimed to control and "protect" Aboriginal people by placing them under government supervision. Gave government officials control over where Aboriginal people lived, worked, and who they married.

What is the Aboriginal Protection Board?

500

When did the Australian Government officially apologise for the Stolen Generations?

2008

500

Children were placed in many of these when removed from their families.

What are missions/reserves?
500

Name the 5 Kulin nations

  • Boonwurrung (Boon-wur-rung)
  • Dja Dja Wurrung (Jar-Jar-Wur-rung)
  • Taungurung (Tung-ger-rung)
  • Wathaurung (Wath-er-rung)
  • Woiwurrung (Woy-wur-rung), commonly known as Wurundjeri.