History

Question 0

Types of convicts

Answer 0

govt assigned: work for govt eg: roads, in chain gang so they couldn’t escape

Assigned: if good, assigned to free settler to help them build, disadvantage for free settler- had to feed & clothe them

Ticket of leave: for good behaviour, work for them self & go back to UK

Expiree: completely free, can work & save money

Emancipist: someone’s who was so good, pardoned completely

Convicts flogged & put in horrible prisons

Question 1

First fleet

Answer 1

First fleet left on 13th may 1787
11 ships: 2 escort navy, 6 convict & 3 supply
Arrived 26th jan 1788 
8 month journey 
1-2 months by 1850 
Second fleet 1790

Question 2

Terra Nullis

Answer 2

Term Brit used to justify taking the land
Meaning- land belonging to no one /Empty land
Law stated if land terra Nullis, can be taken

Question 3

What did Brits do to abl land

Answer 3

Cleared sacred land 
Fenced off properties 
Cut down trees 
& access to water holes & hunting grounds 
Fishing without permission from elders

Question 4

First gold discovery

Answer 4

June 1851 by Edward Hargraves, got 10 000 pounds & lifelong pension

Question 5

End of transportation

Answer 5

1852, gold fields growing with people, people wanted more for themselves but also not one will be available to look after them
Ppl walked off jobs & went to goldfields
Business went bankrupt

Question 6

Richest gold fields

Answer 6

Victorian, Ballarat & castlemaine

Question 7

Lo cong mens

Answer 7

Entrepreneur- provides good for miners, become very wealthy

Question 8

Life on GF

Answer 8

Businesses closed
Roads crowded 
Licence introduced for prospectors
Corruption/ bribery- made miners angry 
No right to vote- unless rich & own land 
Poor nutrition, no fridge- mainly ate meat, damper & potato 
Dusty, disease driven 
Tents
Lots of grog (alcohol) 
Licence 1 pound per month

Question 9

Gold meant:

Answer 9

Freedom, independence, self-reliance

Question 10

Eureka stockade

Answer 10

Big wooden fence where ppl went in to protest against mining licence, unfair laws, corruption & the right to vote
-Troopers attacked on 3rd Dec
500 miners met together under flag, Peter Layla as spokesperson (member of vic parliament)
Built stockage at Eureka
1854 FIRST TIME AUS FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS
Their demands were met even after the day was a disaster

Question 11

Chinese on the GF

Answer 11

Arrived by thousands 
Mid 1850 > 6000 
1 in 5 in GF were Chinese 
Other migrants - North American, Irish 
Chinese hated for going through the debris the white miners went through & found gold in there 
White considered this stealing

Question 12

Selector

Answer 12

Free settler who bought land at ~ 1 pound an acre

Question 13

Spinning jenny

Answer 13

1770- spinning with > one spindle

Question 14

Fly shuttle

Answer 14

Commonly seen as the first invention of textiles/ indus revolution

Question 15

Timeline

Answer 15

Enclosure movement 
Invention of spinning jenny 
Pop ^ in towns & cities 
Crimes rates ^ 
Hulks for temporary prison 
First fleet leaves for Aus 
Settlers start to expand out from Sydney area 
Lachlan Macquarie become governor of NSW 
Myall creek massacre 
End of convict transportation

Question 16

Governor who did most for convicts

Answer 16

Macquarie