Rights and Freedoms

What year was the March on Washington?

• 1963

• 1964

• 1967

• 1969

What was the Day of Mourning?

• First organised civil rights protest by African-Americans

• First organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

• Second organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

• The final organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

What happened to Aboriginal people on reserves and missions?

• They were taught to reject their European ways of life

• They were injected with smallpox

• They were taught to reject their Aboriginality and had to convert to Christianity

• They were taught to speak English and how to fight

Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.

• Government thought these children could be better used as servants.

• Government thought their parents could not look after them

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.

What does Colonisation mean?

• establishing control over the indigenous people of a city. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the European people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the indigenous people of a rural area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

• establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas

What does civil rights mean?

• The rights of Aboriginal people for social and political rights

• The rights of citizens for social and political rights

• The rights of Europeans for social and political rights

• The rights of citizens for social and cutural rights

When was the Day of Mourning Protest?

• 26 January, 1967

• 26 January, 1948

• 26 January, 1938

• 1 January, 1788

How were Aboriginal people impacted by colonisation?

• Better eduction and opportunities

• loss of land, disease, conflict, break down of social structures

• loss of land, disease, new language

• break down of social structures, found new jobs

What was the Stolen Generation?

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from white families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

• The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by other Aboriginal families

• The process where Aboriginal adults were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.

Whose public speech was the famous "I have a dream...."

• Martin Luther King

• J.F. Kennedy

• Donald Trump

• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis