First Fleet Vocab

A person found guilty of a criminal offense

• Convict

• Penal

• Free Settler

• Prisoner

Relating to, used for, or prescribing the punishment of offenders under the legal system

• Colony

• Penal

• Convict

• Fleet

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

• Navigation

• Colony

• Settlement

• Fleet

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

• Shortage

• Larceny

• Rations

• Transport

Alternate punishment to hanging for sentences over 7 years

• Prison hulk

• Navigation

• Transportation

• Larceny

People who chose to leave their homes in Britain and make a new life in Australia

• Free settler

• Colonist

• Convict

• Fleet

Ships that were used as prisons, either temporarily or permanently

• Prison hulk

• Fleet

• Fleet

• Settlement

A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country

• Settlement

• Penal

• Colony

• Ration

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

• Navigation

• Colonization

• Larceny

• Convict

Theft of personal property

• Penal

• Fleet

• Ration

• Larceny