HaSS Colonial Australia

Colonial penal settlements were established to...

• house free colonial settlers.

• house and punish convicts.

• house all the British government officials.

• house all the pets belonging to the convicts.

Colonisation is

• adding colons and full stops to writing.

• a group of elephants settling and taking control of a land that is inhabited by wild frogs.

• lots of ants.

• a group of people settling and taking control of a land that is inhabited by another.

Penal relates to...

• not imprisoned.

• a descriptive word meaning ‘colony’.

• a penalty or punishment for breaking the law.

• a place that is under the political rule of another country.

The British colony of New South Wales was established in...

• 1788

• 1688

• 2021

• 1800

The arrival of the First Fleet was under the command of

• Captain Underpants

• Captain Arthur Phillip

• Captain James Cook

• Captain John Flinders

The first colonial settlement of New South Wales, established at Sydney Cove, was a ...

• free settlement.

• secondary colonial settlement.

• secondary colonial women's settlement.

• penal settlement.

Van Diemen's land was the name for what we now know as...

• South Australia

• Tasmania

• Northern Territory

• Queensland

The colonisers came by boat from...

• Africa

• England

• Cairns

• Timbuktu

Edward Hargraves discovered gold at Ophir, near...

• Bathurst.

• Hobart.

• Brisbane.

• Charters Towers.

In 1857, ___________ miners discovered gold at Ararat in Victoria.

• African

• Swedish

• Chinese

• Japanese