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Making a Nation, check in Quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was the White Australia Policy introduced?

a)

1945

b)

1901

c)

1918

d)

1910

2.

What year was the White Australia Policy officially abolished

a)

1963

b)

1980

c)

1950

d)

1973

3.

How did Immigration officers ensure that non-white people were denied entry to Australia?

a)

Speaking Test

b)

Dictation Test

c)

Citizenship Test

d)

Spelling Test

4.

The idea of 'Survival of the fittest.' Stronger races will survive and weaker ones will die out.

a)

Great Chain of Being

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Immigration Restriction Act

d)

Ethnocentrism

5.

Created in 1901 to manage migration to Australia

a)

Dictation test

b)

Immigration Restriction Act

c)

White Australia Policy

6.

Social Darwinism and Ethnocentrism both believe that superior cultures/races will survive and weaker cultures will die out or have to adopt the superior one

a)

True

b)

False

7.

policies slowly changed to accept migrants from

a)

Southern and Eastern Europe

b)

Bangladesh

c)

China

d)

India

8.

A one way ticket cost migrants

a)

10 Pounds

b)

20 Dollars

c)

40 Euros

9.

Migrants were known as

a)

10 Pound poms

b)

11 Dollar men

c)

20 Euro migrants

10.

The Racial Discrimination Act of which year officially marked the end of the White Australia Policy?

a)

1968

b)

1973

c)

1977

d)

1975

11.
Which immigrants did the Victorian Government tax most highly during the gold rush?
a)
American
b)
English
c)
Chinese
d)
Irish
12.
Why did many European miners dislike the Chinese miners?
a)
They looked different, dressed differently used different mining techniques and followed different customs
b)
The Europeans feared the Chinese would take their jobs
c)
If they found gold, the Chinese took it home to China, instead of investing their gold in Australia 
d)
All of the above
13.
This drawing from 1854 shows Chinese miners walking to the goldfields carrying their bundles of belongings. (Supplied: State Library of Victoria) What historical source of information is it?
a)
Secondary
b)
Infants
c)
Primary
d)
Tertiary
14.
A gold rush is...
a)
A rush of gold from a creek
b)
A group of miners
c)
A town near Ballarat
d)
a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield
15.

Which of the following were positive reasons for federation?

a)

A larger range of foods

b)

A National railway line

c)

Australia would have stronger national defence

d)

It would be cheaper to live in Australia

16.
What does "FEDERATION" mean?
a)
When people meet as a group.
b)
Joining together of a states or colonies to form a nation.
c)
Something that means you put things together.
d)
A type of money
17.
Why was Federation necessary?
a)
Defence, Tariffs and Immigration
b)
Just for Defence
c)
Just for Tariffs
d)
Just for Immigration
18.

True or False: Push and pull factors are those factors which either forcefully push people into migration or attract them to a new destination.

a)

True

b)

false

19.

What does Terra Nullius mean?

a)

Land that is bought from the native people.

b)

Land that is owned by the crown.

c)

Land that is claimed through invasion.

d)

Land belonging to no one.

20.

The Term Black Birding refers to what practice?

a)

The practice of hunting and documenting native black birds of Australia

b)

The practice of enslaving people to forcibly work on cotton and sugar cane plantations in Australia.

c)

The practice of paying people to work on plantations in Australia

d)

The practice of educating people to be model citizens in Australia.

21.

What region were people forcibly removed to work on the cotton and sugar cane regions?

a)

Mediterranean Islands

b)

South Pacific Islands

c)

Atlantic Islands

d)

Africa

22.

What is Imperialism?

a)

Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion.

b)

Imperialism is an ideology that emphasises loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state.

c)

Imperialism is an ideology that the individual people are placed above their nation ideologies

d)

Imperialism is the state policy that forces the dominate power to return control of the land to the native people.