Definitions

Question 0

Define: Immigration Restriction Act

Answer 0

Also known as the White Australia Policy, this law aimed to reduce the amount of non-white immigrants from entering Australia. This was done by making the immigrants sit an English dictation test.

Question 1

Define: immigration

Answer 1

To move to a country in which you are not a native, to take up permanent residence.

Question 2

Define: federation

Answer 2

Uniting all states to make a nation.

Question 3

Define: settlement

Answer 3

A place, which is usually uninhabited, where people come to in order to form a community

Question 4

Define: digger

Answer 4

A Caucasian Australian person involved in the gold rush, term later used in WWI for an ANZAC soldier

Question 5

Define: primary source

Answer 5

An artefact that comes from the time of the event

Question 6

Define: secondary source

Answer 6

An analysis, recreation etc of a primary source.

Question 7

Definition: tailings

Answer 7

Sediments remaining after ores have been processed in mining