Making of a Modern Nation Revision - 1st Australians CA

In what year did the First Fleet arrive in Australia?

• 1770

• 1788

• 1901

• 1815

In what year did Federation occur in Australia?

• 1770

• 1788

• 1815

• 1901

How many languages were there in Australia prior to European settlement?

• <50

• 100

• 200

• 250>

The stolen generations:

• Often never saw their families again.

• Where people who stole things.

• Were Aboriginal children who were forcibly taken from their families.

• D) A and C

5) What disease killed many Indigenous people at the start of colonisation?

• Small Pox

• Measles

• Polio

• COVID-19

Aboriginal Dreamtime stories were important for Indigenous Australians because....

• they explain how the world and features of the Australian landscape were created.

• they contain moral messages important to pass down from one generation to another.

• they are stories about the spiritual ancestors.

• all the above.

Which of these is NOT a problem created by European arrival in Australia?

• Land taken without permission.

• Indigenous people killed by settlers.

• Some settlers learning an Indigenous language.

• All of the above

TRUE or FALSE.

Half-caste children were taken from their parents due to government policy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE

Australia was originally called ‘Terra Nullius’ (no-man’s land) because the British believed that the land was uninhabited.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE

Bennelong was an important mediator between Indigenous Australians and the Europeans when Australia was first colonised.

• TRUE

• FALSE