Western Australia and Convict History

What does 'colonisation' mean?

• Settling on land to strat a city.

• Taking over the Indigenous population and controlling them for your own use.

• Fighting another country to take over that area.

• Constructing bridges and buildings in a city.

What disease killed 70% of the Indigenous population in the first year after the First Fleet in Sydney?

• COVID 19

• Diabetes

• The Flu

• Small Pox

What was a 'hulk' in England in the 1700s and 1800s?

• An angry green superhero.

• A football team.

• A ship that was turned into a prison.

• A theatre play.

What is 'Sedition'?

• Falling asleep while sailing.

• Another word for 'stealing' as a crime.

• A red fish.

• Creating hate against His or Her majesty of England.

England losing the war of Independence was a reason for finding a place to send convicts. True of False?

• True

• False

What could happen to a 'debtor' who owed money in England in the 18th Century.

2 correct answers.

• They could pay the money back as they wanted to.

• They went bankrupt.

• They went to prison and worked until they could pay it back.

• They could become convicts and sent to another country to work.

Why did the Industrial Revolution in England become a reason for an increase in prisoner numbers?

• People were lazy because machines did all the work for them.

• People lost their jobs because of machines and turned to crime.

• People refused to work with machines and turned to crime.

• People lost their jobs because children worked on the machines.

Which cities had the penal colonies at the start of colonisation in Australia?

• Brisbane

  Melbourne

• Sydney

  Hobart

• Perth

  Sydney

• Perth

  Melbourne

Who went on an expedtion to proclaim Western Australia as part of Britan, where now the whole land mass of Australia was under British ownership?

• James Cook

• Captain James Sterling

• James Fremantle

• Edmund Lockyer

Why did the original settlement of Perth fail at the beginning?

• There were no convicts.

• The soil was not fit for growing crops.

• There were fights with Indigenous people.

• There were too many convicts.