The spreading impact

Question 1

How many convicts were transported between 1788 and 1868?

Answer 1

168,000

Question 2

Between 1788 and 1810, how many male and female convicts were transported?

Answer 2

9,300 male convicts and 2,500 female convicts

Question 3

Between 1811 and 1820, how many male and female convicts were transported?

Answer 3

15,400 male convicts and 2,000 female convicts

Question 4

Between 1821 and 1830, how many male and female convicts were transported?

Answer 4

28,700 male convicts and 4,100 female convicts

Question 5

Between 1831 and 1840, how many male and female convicts were transported?

Answer 5

43,500 male convicts and 7,700 female convicts

Question 6

In the 1807 census, what proportion of the population were children?

Answer 6

1 in 4

Question 7

By 1828, what was the free and convict population?

Answer 7

The free population was 20,870 and the convict population was 15,728

Question 8

When was the first attempt to organise a free settlement in Western Australia?

Answer 8

1829

Question 9

When was the settlement of Van Dieman’s Land?

Answer 9

1803

Question 10

What was the second settlement that was linked to Van Dieman’s Land?

Answer 10

Port Risdon/ Hobart (strategic and because Tasmania was key for whaling)

Question 11

Till when was Van Dieman’s land run as an adjutant part of the main settlement?

Answer 11

1824

Question 12

Who was the Governor of Van Dieman’s land between 1823 and 1837?

Answer 12

Sir George Arthur (totalitarian regime)

Question 13

Until the 1830s, what was the second principal source of income for the settlement?

Answer 13

Wool

Question 14

When did Whaling begin to have a greater influence in the colony?

Answer 14

Arrival of the Third Fleet in 1791 under Captain Thomas Melvill of Britannica

Question 15

Who broke the East India Company’s monopoly on Whale oil after shipping 260 tons (from the skin of 13,700 seals) to England in 1805?

Answer 15

Robert Campbell (later the Hondurous Packet carried 34,000 skins to England)

Question 16

What was the value of wool exported by 1830?

Answer 16

£2 million

Question 17

When was the first crossing of the Blue Mountain?

Answer 17

1813

Question 18

Who led the first crossing of the Blue Mountains?

Answer 18

Blaxland (saying it could support the colony for 30 years), Lawson and Wentworth

Question 19

When was a road commissioned over the Blue Mountains?

Answer 19

1814

Question 20

Who led a further expedition in 1819 across the Blue Mountains?

Answer 20

Charles Throsby

Question 21

When were the Liverpool Plains discovered?

Answer 21

1818

Question 22

In which year was the Australian Agricultural Company established by Royal Charter in Britain, and was given 1 million acres?

Answer 22

1824 (from Port Stephens to the Manning River)

Question 23

When was the Western Coast of Australia surveyed and claimed by George Vancouver for Britain?

Answer 23

1791

Question 24

When was a small military outpost in King George Sound (later called Albany) established?

Answer 24

1826

Question 25

When was the Swan River Company (for Western Australia) established by Captain Stirling?

Answer 25

1828

Question 26

How many settlers were sent by the Swan River Company?

Answer 26

10,000 settlers (40 acres per £3)

Question 27

When did Captain Freemantle claim all the land that did not make up New South Wales from the mouth of the Swan River?

Answer 27

1829

Question 28

When was the Swan River settlement established?

Answer 28

1829 (1,500 colonists by 1832)

Question 29

What did John Bigge recommend in his report?

Answer 29

Convict labour primarily to sheep farms than for public works; early pardons, tickets of leave and land grants for emancipists should cease; no positions of responsibility to emancipists

Question 30

What were the main aspects of the New South Wales Act in 1823?

Answer 30

A legislative council was to be created (made of exclusives, and went from 7 members to 15 in 1828); justice system independent of the Governor; Van Dieman’s Land ran as a separate colony