WorksheetsCHS Yr 9 History
Total questions: 97
Worksheet time: 3hrs 14mins
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
What does Terra Nullius mean?
Land that has previously been used for agriculture
territory that is occupied by indigenous people of North America
"nobody's land" - 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
Who was the Aboriginal man known for violent attacks against settlers during the early years of settlement in New South Wales?
Truganini
Pemulwuy
Bennelong
Benneton
What group of people came to work on the sugar plantations in Queensland?
Indians
Afghans
Chinese
South Pacific Islanders
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
What was federation?
The joining of one colony to form a nation
The joining of colonies to form a nation
The original name for Australia
The original name for Canberra
legislation
A general vote by the electorate on a single question
Laws enacted by government
The idea that powerful nations have the right to rule over weaker peoples and build an empire
The political and legal principles upon which a country is governed
massacre
A derogatory term used to describe South Sea Islander indentured labourers in Queensland
A group of states with a central government, but with independence within the state
To deliberately and brutally kill many people, indiscriminately kill
A settlement used to exile prisoners and enforce punishment for a crime
What group of people brought camels to central Australia?
Indians
Afghans
Chinese
South Pacific Islanders
At the time of European settlement, how many languages were spoken in Australia?
1
approximately 12
at least 250
there was no recognisable language spoken
What British legal principle was invoked that allowed the settlers to claim land in the new settlement in spite of the clear evidence that the land was already occupied?
quid pro quo
non est inventus
terra nullius
habeas corpus
Initially, Great Britain used Australia as which type of colony?
Agricultural
Naval Base
Mercantile
Convict
Australia gained independence from Great Britain in which year?
1900
1901
1902
1903
Which statement describes the early relationship between British colonists and Australian Aborigines?
armed conflicts from the very beginning
invitations to turn aboriginal lands into ranches
friendly at first, then hostile as the British sought more land
aboriginal diseases became an issue for colonists
Who Discovered Australia?
Captain Cook
Captain Underpants
Captain McBerry
Captain Longmy
How old is Australian indigenous culture?
Less than 10,000 years
12,000 years
40,000 - 60,000 years or more
100, 000 years
It is a/an...
What was the outcome of the 1967 Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution?
Indigenous Australians were granted the right to vote
Indigenous Australians were included in the census
Indigenous Australians were recognised by the United Nations Human Rights Council
All of the above
True or False: The Myall Creek massacre is the most well known one as it was the first massacre in Australia that resulted in the murderers being put on trial.
True
False
Bennelong was..
an aboriginal man who refused to cooperate with Governor Arthur Phillip.
a white British settler who shot aboriginal people dead whilst hunting.
an aboriginal man who killed Pemulwuy after betraying him.
an aboriginal man who acted as a translator to the settlers of The First Fleet.
What was the aim of the White Australia Policy?
To breed the black colour out of Indigenous Australians.
To ensure only British and Irish people migrated to Australia.
To take aboriginal children from their parents and raise them in missions or protectorates.
To stop the mass-migration of non-white people to Australia.
What problems did colonisers face when they settled around Sydney? (Select all answers which are correct)
The climate was different to England
Very few of the convicts had any farming experience
Crops along river settlements were destroyed by floods
What method did Aboriginal peoples use to manage and cultivate the land?
Cattle farming
Fire-stick farming
Sheep farming
Nomadic farming
What impact did sheep have on the Australian landscape?
They controlled weeds and pests in paddocks
Their hooves damaged the land and their teeth and jaw structure meant that they could bite grass near its roots and prevent it regerminating
They took over and caused native animals to die
They helped grass and crops to regerminate
Which animals was introduced to Australia (not native) and caused havoc by reproducing quickly, grazing excessively and burrowing land?
foxes
rabbits
mice
sheep
Which industry in Australia were the Japanese mainly involved with?
Sugar cane
Pearl industry
Tobacco
Gold
Which industry in Australia were the Chinese mainly involved with?
Sugar cane
Pearl industry
Tobacco
Gold
Which industry in Australia were the 'Afghans' mainly involved with?
Sugar cane
Pearl industry
Camels and desert transport
Gold
What were some of the reasons for federation?
Defence of Australia with one army
To be more closely linked to Britain
Free trade
Control over immigration
Which was the last state to agree to federate?
New South Wales
Victoria
Western Australia
South Australia
Why was the dictation test not a fair method for processing immigrants to Australia?
Officers could give the test in any language they chose and often set people up to fail
It was only given to rich, white immigrants
It automatically allowed all applicants entry to Australia
In what year did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples get the right to vote in Australia?
1957
1967
1901
1788
In what year did Kevid Rudd give the national apology to First Nations peoples?
1998
2002
2006
2008
What was women's suffrage?
The poor treatment they received during the 1800s
The movement to allow women to be politicians
The right to vote
Which state was the most progressive for women's rights the late 1800s and 1900s?
New South Wales
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia
Which was the last state to give voting rights to women?
Victoria
New South Wales
South Australia
Queensland
Select the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution:
Pollution
Overcrowded cities
Poor working conditions
Increase in wages
Another word for farming
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Technology
Invention
What does a patent give to a person?
The right to open a new factory
The right to farm an area of land
The right to drive a car
Exclusive right to sell an invention
Which of the following is considered an impact of Industrialization during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Increased competition between industrialized nations
Rise of global inequalities
Transformation of society.
All of the above
Capitalism is
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and money is invested to make profits.
An economic system in which the means of production are owned by the public (government) and operate for the welfare of all.
The Steam engine
was originally invented to pump water out of coal mines
originally used petroleum to function
was originally invented to improve transportation
originally used electricity to function
Women were paid ____ than men for doing the same work.
Less
More
These workers negotiate as a group to try and argue for better pay, better hours, and better working conditions.
Abolitionists
Labor Unions
Temperance Movement
Capitalists
This picture shows which problem of the factory system in Great Britain? Choose the BEST answer.
Unsafe working conditions
Unfair wages for women
Urbanization
Child Labor
The term laissez-faire roughly translates to mean:
Freedom
Lazy government
Resist
Community
During the Industrial Revolution, a new social and economic class that developed was called the:
Serfs
Nobles
Upper class
Middle Class
Which of the following best describes the term industrialization? Choose the BEST answer.
Nations began to rely on one another for trade of various goods and resources after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Smaller nations needed assistance from their larger neighbors, so they formed trade alliances
More and more people began to move to cities, away from rural areas
Advancement in technology (machines) to produce goods on a larger scale and a reliance on manufacturing of goods instead of individuals producing goods by hand
Which of the following was NOT true of poor urban neighborhoods?
They were filled with overcrowded tenements.
The living conditions were dirty and squalid.
Most urbanites lived in factory-owned apartments.
The incidence of diseases was increasing.
How did industrialization impact women?
Many women entered the paid workplace.
Many women practiced traditional economic activities.
It had no impact on the lives of women.
Women moved from cities to rural areas.
What is this invention?
Spinning Jenny
Power Loom
Steam Engine
Telegraph
Which of the following jobs are not considered as part of the MIDDLE CLASS?
farmer
factory worker
doctor
lawyer
What was the factory system?
A fast way to get to work
A way to make goods more expensive
Put workers and machines together under one roof
A nuclear reactor
What was a major new source of power during the Industrial Revolution?
Solar
Wind
Steam
Nuclear
Who mostly worked in factories?
Men
Women and children
Oxen
Native Americans
Which was not a problem in cities?
There was garbage everywhere
Disease spread easily
They were super clean
Fires spread quickly
Which was a positive result of the Industrial Revolution?
Cities became overcrowded
Children were forced to work in unsafe conditions
Goods became more expensive
Goods were made faster and cheaper
Why did people move to cities during this time period?
They wanted to live near factories where they worked
They were bored of farms
They had better water
Disease was less common in cities
Name the event which caused Australia's population to double in the 1850s:
The Gold Rush
The Silver Rush
The Spanish Influenza Epidemic
The 10 Pound Pom Immigration Scheme
Which two centuries did the Industrial Revolution take place?
18th and 19th
20th and 21st
16th and 17th
12th and 13th
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Industrial Revolution?
The use of coal as energy
The use of steam-driven machinery
The wide availability of iron
An increased use of digital technology
What was the invention which allowed a farmer to drill, plough and seed three rows of plants at a time?
Watt's Steam Engine
Jethro Tull's seed drill
The Rotherham Plough
The Spinning Jenny
What is this woman using?
A stump-jump plough
A spinning jenny
A telegraph
A steam engine
What is this invention called?
Locomotive
Telephone
Watt's Steam Engine
Water Mill
What law meant that a lot of farm workers were essentially 'closed off' from the land they once farmed?
The Fair labour act
The Child labour act
The Enclosure Act
The Emancipation Proclamation
What is a 'cottage industry'?
A house-building industry
A large-scale, industrialised industry
A small-scale, hand-made industry
A farming concern
What occupation is this child doing?
Textile worker
Chimney sweep
Coal miner
Farmhand
What was the main reason that legislation against child labour took so long to pass?
Parliament was lazy
Children could not vote
Child labour was profitable
No one cared about kids
What was a 'workhouse?'
An iron factory
A place where orphans lived and worked
A church-run hostel
The centre of the textile factory
