Aos 1 Exam

Question 0

Aboriginal - primary

Answer 0

“If I caught a black actually killing my sheep. I would shoot him with as little remorse as I would a wild dog.” HENRY MEYRICK
“So very low in the scale of civilisation” WILLIAM WESTGARTH
“Surely nothing can justify our taking this substinence from them” JAMES DREDGE
“You have all this place now, me just tumble down and die” DERRIMUT

Question 1

Primary - Settlers/Migration

Answer 1

• “what a difference there is between this country and home for poor folks” ELLEN W
• “excellent and very rich. I never saw anything equal to the land in my life” JOHN BATMAN
• “a doorstep to an untouched region that lay behind.. NSW will do more for my family than England ever will” THOMAS HENTY

Question 2

Gold - secondary

Answer 2

“Almost entirely destructive” GEOFFREY BOLTON
“Miners feel they had no voice and could get no justice” CLARE WRIGHT
From a “hierarchal pastoralist society” to a “bristling, gold driven democracy” RICHARD BROOME
“Simply speeding up democratic processes already taking place” GEOFFREY BLAINEY

Question 3

Aboriginal secondary

Answer 3

“Disease was the early killer.. Demoralisation the later killer” GEOFFREY BLAINEY
“Unintended clash between two incompatible systems” RICHARD BROOME
“Weakened their ability to resist the new invaders” AGL SHAW
“Aborigines put up a determined and concerted resistance” MICHAEL CHRISTIE

Question 4

Migration - secondary

Answer 4

“A rural utopia, an Eden before the fall” and “pastoralists perpetrated the biggest land grab in history” RICHARD BROOME
“Between 1830 and 1860, hell was turned into paradise” and “the view of Australia from England was softening” RICHARD WHITE

Question 5

Gold - primary

Answer 5

"Great city as comfortable, as elegant, as luxurious as any place in London or Paris" WESTON BATE
"Possess wealth and happiness if allowed to cultivate the lands around us" PETER LALOR
"..literacy, talent and generally completeness and efficiency with the first class journals of London" AGE EDITORIAL