Making A Nation (Year 9)

Question 1

Who was the captain of the first fleet?

Answer 1

Captain Arthur Phillip

Question 2

What made having a colony in NSW hard?

Answer 2

Harsh landscape
Hot summers
Settler’s lack of experience

Question 3

Who was appointed captain of the Endeavour?

Answer 3

Captain James Cook

Question 4

What was New Holland?

Answer 4

Australia- name given by Dutch explorers

Question 5

When did Cook land in Botany Bay?

Answer 5

1770

Question 6

Why did Britain decided to settle a penal colony in Australia?

Answer 6

Industrial Revolution
Overcrowding in jails
American War of Indepence
British factories need raw materials
Britain wanted to keep its title of seafaring and colonial nation

Question 7

How many ships were in the first fleet?

Answer 7

11 ships

Question 8

When did the First Fleet arrive in Botany Bay?

Answer 8

13 of May 1787

Question 9

Why did they leave Botany Bay?

Answer 9

The land was unsuitable for settlement

Question 10

When did the First Fleet land in Sydney cove?

Answer 10

26 of January 1788

Question 11

Who was the first governor of NSW?

Answer 11

Captain Arthur Phillip

Question 12

What made up the First Fleet?

Answer 12

Two warships
Six convict ships
Three supply ships

Question 13

Who was on board the First Fleet?

Answer 13

Naval officers
Four companies of marines
Administrators and their families
Male and female convicts

Question 14

What were the conditions like on the First Fleet?

Answer 14

The ships were crowded
Prisoners spent a lot of time below deck
Many convicts were chained together
The ships were infested with rats, cockroaches and fleas

Question 15

When was the first convict settlement in NSW?

Answer 15

1788

Question 16

What does terra nullius mean?

Answer 16

No man’s land

Question 17

Why was it called no man’s land?

Answer 17

The indigenous people did not fence off land, farm the land or build on the land

Question 18

Why didn’t indigenous people farm the land?

Answer 18

The indigenous people had a deep spiritual connection with the land

Question 19

What did the Europeans bring that impacted on the indigenous people?

Answer 19

They brought new diseases
They disturbed established territories
They brought new animals
They threatened the way of traditional life

Question 20

Where were indigenous people living at the end of the 19th century?

Answer 20

Mainly on reserves, missions or protectorates

Question 21

What happened to the indigenous people by the end of the 19th century?

Answer 21

They had lost their traditional families and culture
Their health was poor
Alcohol and tobacco use become common

Question 22

What were the diseases that effected indigenous people?

Answer 22

The common cold, tuberculosis, syphilis, measles, influenza and smallpox

Question 23

What were the conditions like on the gold fields?

Answer 23

Water and fresh food was scarce
Sanitation was poor
Little education
Medical care was poor
Children working on the goldfields were most likely to get injured
Women died in childbirth because of lack of medical care

Question 24

What were the two reasons for federation?

Answer 24

Defence and the economy

Question 25

When did federation happen?

Answer 25

1901