Vocabulary
A group of people living together in one place.
What is a colony?
The first people to walk this land over 60 000 years ago referred to as Aboriginal people.
Who are the Indigenous people of Australia?
This date is known as Invasion Day by many Indigenous Australians.
What is the 26th January?
First hand evidence recorded at the time of the event.
What is a primary source?
A person who explores a new or unfamiliar area.
What is an explorer?
People living together in an ordered community abiding by laws and customs.
What is society?
The man who navigated the First Fleet from Britain that landed on Australian shores in 1788
Who was Captain James Cook?
A period of time in Australia's history when many people migrated to the colony in the hopes of becoming rich.
What was the gold rush?
Evidence recorded after an event by someone who was not a witness.
What is a secondary source?
A person's conception and expression of individuality or group affiliation, self-concept and self-representation.
What is identity?
The system of how money is made and used within a particular country or region
What is an economy?
An Irish-Australian rebel and, later, politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion,
Who was Peter Lalor?
A period in British history during the 1700's where society underwent great social, economical and political change.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location
What is a penal colony?
The forming of a theory or idea without firm evidence.
What is speculation?
Relating to the government or public affairs of a country.
What are politics?
He was the first to discover gold in NSW in 1851. This was the event that lead to the Australian gold rush.
Who was Edward Hammond?
The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom.
What was the Eureka Stockade?
The process of travelling from one place to another in order to settle there for a period of time.
What is migration?
A person who seeks to promote human welfare.
What is an humanitarian?
Recognising and celebrating the many different cultures, religions, races, places and backgrounds that people come from.
What is diversity?
A young Indigenous boy working as a stockman for rural family in Queensland. he discovered gold at a place called Charter Towers in 1871.
Who was Jupiter Mosman?
The process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia.
What is Federation?
A system of government voted for by the whole population from a choice of representatives.
What is a democracy?
A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
What is an entrepreneur?