White settler colonies in 19th and 20th c

Question 1

Migration

Answer 1

1500-1783: 1.4 million european migrants to the new world
1815-1914: 22.6 million people migrated from British Isles, mostly to US

Question 2

Migration policy

Answer 2

19th c: White Australia Policy
1922: Empire settlement act to attract migrants to canada
1924: immigration quotas in the US

Question 3

Responsible government

Answer 3

Canada: 1848-55
Australia & NZ: 1856, West Aus in 1890
South Africa: Cape Colony (1872), Transvaal & Orange RIver by 1907

Question 4

Dominions

Answer 4

Canada: 1867
Aus, NZ, Newfoundland: 1907
SA; 1910
Irish Free State: 1922, Ireland in 1937

Question 5

2nd Balfour Declaration

Answer 5

1926
Dominions would be ‘equal in status’

Question 6

Statute of Westminster

Answer 6

1931
Increased soveriegnty and legal status

Question 7

Commonwealth of nations

Answer 7

Established in 1949, now includes 56 nations

Question 8

Citizenship

Answer 8

Collapse of ‘imperial citizenship:
- Ireland forms its own in 1935
- Followed by Canada in 1936
- Aus, NZ & SA by 1949

Question 9

Collapse of commonwealth

Answer 9

Ireland leaves in 1949, SA in 1961
Queen of Canada in 1952, Queen of Aus in 73
Canadian constitution in 83