First Fleet Vocab

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A person found guilty of a criminal offense

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Convict

Front

Relating to punishment of offenders in the legal system

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Penal

Front

A group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership

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Fleet

Front

Allow each person to have a fixed amount of food/water

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Rations

Front

Alternate punishment to hanging for sentences over 7 years

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Transportation

Front

People who left Britain for a new life in Australia

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Free settler

Front

Ships used as prisons

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Prison hulk

Front

A country or area under the political control of another country

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Colony

Front

Settling and controlling indigenous people of an area

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Colonization

Front

Theft of personal property

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Larceny