Settler colonialism in Australia
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- In this lesson, we will learn about what British colonialism looked like in Australia. We will look at the ways in which British settlers expanded their power in Australia and how Aboriginal people experienced, resisted and responded to British settlement in Australia.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What was the title given to the top governor of India, appointed by the queen?
General
King
Prince
Q2.
Why were British officials in India encouraged not to marry Indian women?
It was illegal
The British thought that marrying Indian women would upset the Indian people
They thought that Indian women would kill the British officials
Q3.
Who was allowed to judge criminal cases involving white British people in the countryside?
Both white European and Indian judges
Only Indian judges
Q4.
How many people are estimated to have died in famines in India in the last 25 years of the nineteenth century?
Between 1 and 2 million people
Between 10 and 15 million people
Between 5 and 10 million people
Q5.
Which one of the following is true?
Indians thought that self-help was a pointless response to British colonialism
The British directly helped many Indians to set up their own businesses
The British put a lot of money into supporting Indian self-help groups
5 Questions
Q1.
For many years, Australia was a penal colony for Britain. This meant that many of the very first settlers were ...
artists
free settlers
lawyers
Q2.
British settlers in Australia used violence and the army to take land from Aboriginal people. These conflicts are known as ...
British wars
colony wars
land wars
Q3.
Which of the following encouraged hundreds of thousands more free settlers to move to Australia in the 1850s?
Queen Victoria
self-government for the Australian colonies
the discovery of silver
Q4.
How did many settlers justify taking land from Aboriginal people?
They claimed that the Aboriginal people gave it to them.
They claimed that the Governor had forced them to take the land from Aboriginal people.
They claimed that they had paid the Aboriginal people for the land.
Q5.
By the end of the nineteenth century, many Aboriginal people were forced to live in and not allowed to leave ...
big cities
Sydney
Tasmania