Stolen Generation

Question 1

What year was the arrival of Captain Cook?
1 mark

Answer 1

1770

Question 2

What year was the arrival of the first fleet?
1 mark

Answer 2

1788

Question 3

What was the aim of the arrival of the first fleet?
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Answer 3

to establish a penal colony

Question 4

From a British perspective what was conflict motivated by?
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Answer 4

a desire to make it easier to access the land they needed to develop their colonies

Question 5

From an Indigenous perspective what was conflict motivated by?
1 mark

Answer 5

about protecting their Country and homes.

Question 6

What did the British Government create to investigate how violence could be reduced, and what year did they create it in?
2 marks

Answer 6

the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, 1835

Question 7

The findings of the Parliamentary Select Commitee on Aboriginal Tribes were……
4 marks

Answer 7

• needed to be more Christian missionary activity to help ‘civilize’ FNP
  
  • removing land from FNP needed to be more regulated
  • stricter rules needed to be implied on the sale of alcohol and work contracts for FNP
  • lives of FNP should now be officially under the control of the British Empire

Question 8

What year was the Port Phillip Protectorate established?
1 mark

Answer 8

1839

Question 9

What year was the Port Phillip Protectorate closed and why was it closed?
2 marks

Answer 9

1849, b/c was seen to be ‘ineffective in achieving the task to ‘civilize’ FNP

Question 10

What year was the policy of segregation adopted?
1 mark

Answer 10

1850, after failure of the Port Philip Protectorate.

Question 11

What year were reserves first developed and why were they developed?
2 marks

Answer 11

1850, designed to pull FN children away from ‘tribal influences’

Question 12

What were stations?
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Answer 12

places where people were put to work, often for little or no pay

Question 13

what was the policy of segregation?
3 marks

Answer 13

establishing reserves on areas of land set aside by the government where FNP were encouraged to ‘settle down to a life of farming’

this was often incredibly difficult as the land they were provided with was often unsuitable for any sort of farming and government support was often limited

Question 14

summarize the ‘1860 Creation of the Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of Aborigines ‘ policy
2 marks

Answer 14

Gov = given control of ‘reserves’ + ‘stations’
Gov = control of basic goods available (e.g. food, clothes)

Question 15

summarize the ‘1869 Establishment of the Aboriginal Protection Act and the Aboriginal Protection Board’ policy

Answer 15

Aboriginal Protection Board = power to regulate lives of FNP