Assessment study - Immigration from England Flashcards
What countries sent people over on the first fleet?
They were mostly Irish convicts, together with a few Royal Marines.
By the year 1803, a total of 2086 Irish convicts, nearly all of whom were Catholic, had been transported to Botany Bay. They were transported by the British, from Britain.
What religions arrived in the first fleet?
Majority Irish Catholics
What was the treatment of the convicts in the first fleet like?
People were treated poorly, as they were separated from their families.
What happened to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people during this time?
As squatters and pastoralists moved throughout the continent, taking land for farming, they intruded on the traditional lands of the people who inhabited each area. Often when Aboriginal peoples attempted to defend their lives and land they were killed, sometimes in organised massacres.
It is now well known that white settlement of the Australian continent often meant destruction and death for Aboriginal peoples and their cultures. The white settlers did not understand how important the land was to the Indigenous people, and how distressing it was for them to be removed from it. These were the results of white settlers’ ignorance of Aboriginal spirituality, as the injustices were what Aboriginals were connected to.
Land, kids and lifestyle was taken off the Aboriginals. They were people of the land. The land was natural and the Aboriginal’s learnt to thrive in that environment. The Aboriginal’s were spiritually connected to the land as it was their home, and they created different ways to survive and learn.
What did the first catholics experience upon their arrival with the first fleet?
Due to this suspicion against the Catholics, they were not allowed to gather, or celebrate mass.
This caused a lot of backlash/rebellions
What was the relationship like between the Catholic Church and other christian denominations?
The Church of England was the official type of Christianity in Australia during this time.
This meant that the Irish Catholics, Pope and Catholic priests were despised as they thought they would rebel against them.
