Making a Nation quiz

What were the reasons Britain colonised Australia?

• For resources and to establish relationships with Indigenous groups

• For land to raise sheep, imperial ambition and overcrowding

• For resources, imperial ambition and to rid Britain of an excess of peasants

• For resources, imperial ambition and to rid Britain of an excess of criminals

In the context of British colonisation of Australia, what does colonisation mean?

• Establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• Establishing control over the people of an area in North America.

• Establishing a colony in an area in order to trade with indigenous people

• Establishing control over people within an agrarian population

Where did the first fleet land?

• Port of Brisbane, QLD

• Botany Bay, NSW

• Fleet landing, NSW

• Port of Arthur, Tasmania

What does Terra Nullius mean?

• Land that has previously been used for agriculture

• territory that is occupied by indigenous people of North America

• "land belonging to no one" - territory that nobody owns so that the first nation to discover it is entitled to take it over

• Land that has not be used for agriculture

What does dispossession mean?

• The act of giving someone of land, property, or other possessions.

• The act of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions

• The act of depriving Europeans of land, property, or other possessions

• The act of depriving someone of possessions

What was the first act that excluded non-Europeans in 1901?

• Asian Restriction Act

• Non-European Restriction Act

• Chinese Restriction Act

• Immigration Restriction Act

Match the following

• Chinese

• Came to Australia to work in the pearl industry

• South Sea Islanders

• Came to Australia to work as camel drivers

• North Indians

• Came to Australia to work on sugar plantations

• Japanese

• Came to Australia for the gold rush

When did the gold rushes begin in Australia?

• 1851

• 1652

• 1751

• 1900

What was the set of laws that aimed to exclude non-Europeans called?

• The Servile Policy

• The European Australia Policy

• The White Australia Policy

• The Australia Policy

True or false? The gold rush reinforced social and class structures.

• True

• False