Aboriginal Genocide in VDL Flashcards
What took its toll on the aboriginals and why?
Disease, they had no protection to it.
What did General Arthur declare against the aboriginals in 1828
What was the objective of this?
Martial law.
To find and relocate them in settler districts, to calm settler fears.
Why were guns given to convicts?
However, what did they do instead?
To hunt kangaroos.
Killed aboriginals.
How many sheep were in VDL by 1824?
What did the aboriginals begin to do?
1m.
fight back
440k Merino sheep were in VDL by when?
Some stock breeders were getting _ lambings every _ years.
1827
2, 3.
Between what years were the final efforts at reconciliation made?
1831-35.
What did the british attempt to prevent?
The extermination of the remaining 200 Tasmanians.
Where were the aboriginals moved to?
This was an attempt to ______ them.
Flinders Island.
Civilise.
When did the last VDL aboriginal die?
Therefore, how many years after Europeans’ arrival were aboriginals wiped out?
73 years.
