Frontier Wars Flashcards
Why did the British colonize Australia?
It intended to alleviate overcrowding in British prisons, expand the British Empire, assert Britain’s claim to the territory against other colonial powers, and establish a British base in the global South.
How many British people were killed by First Nations peoples during the Frontier Wars?
Approximately 2,000
How many First Nations people were killed by the British colonizers during the Frontier Wars?
Approximately 20,000
Explain why the miners disliked the gold license system.
It benefited people who were rich, and those who didn’t find gold lost a lot of money.
What made Ballarat different to other goldfields?
Deep leads were gold-bearing watercourses that had been buried at varied depths by ages of silting and, in certain Victorian goldfields like Ballarat, volcanic action. They also began to mine the original gold sources, the subterranean gold reefs.
What were the demands of the Ballarat Reform League?
Members of the Ballarat Reform League drafted this charter in 1854. It outlines their fervent requests for more people in the colony of Victoria to have a bigger say in formulating laws in Victoria, such as the ability to vote and stand for parliament.
Identify the two immediate factors that spurred the miners to erect a stockade.
It was caused bya disagreement over what gold miners felt were unfair laws and policing of their work by government
When was the Eureka Stockade?
December 3, 1854
How many people were killed in the Eureka Stockade?
33 miners and five troops had been killed
Date of federation
January 1, 1901
