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- 1. Multiple Choice
What year was the March on Washington?
1963
1964
1967
1969
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was the Day of Mourning?
First organised civil rights protest by African-Americans
First organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples
Second organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples
The final organised civil rights protest by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples
- 3. Multiple Choice
What happened to Aboriginal people on reserves and missions?
They were taught to reject their European ways of life
They were injected with smallpox
They were taught to reject their Aboriginality and had to convert to Christianity
They were taught to speak English and how to fight
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?
Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.
Government thought these children could be better used as servants.
Government thought their parents could not look after them
Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What does Colonisation mean?
establishing control over the indigenous people of a city. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas
establishing control over the European people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas
establishing control over the indigenous people of a rural area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas
establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. This can relate to removing people from their land as well as imposing cultural, religious and political ideas
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does civil rights mean?
The rights of Aboriginal people for social and political rights
The rights of citizens for social and political rights
The rights of Europeans for social and political rights
The rights of citizens for social and cutural rights
- 7. Multiple Choice
When was the Day of Mourning Protest?
26 January, 1967
26 January, 1948
26 January, 1938
1 January, 1788
- 8. Multiple Choice
How were Aboriginal people impacted by colonisation?
Better eduction and opportunities
loss of land, disease, conflict, break down of social structures
loss of land, disease, new language
break down of social structures, found new jobs
- 9. Multiple Choice
What was the Stolen Generation?
The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.
The process where Aboriginal children were removed from white families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.
The process where Aboriginal children were removed from their families by other Aboriginal families
The process where Aboriginal adults were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Whose public speech was the famous "I have a dream...."
Martin Luther King
J.F. Kennedy
Donald Trump
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 11. Multiple Choice
What were the laws that separated black people from white people called?
Black laws
Crow laws
Jim Crow laws
John Deere laws
- 12. Multiple Choice
Segregation laws .......
made sure children went to school.
kept black people and white people separate.
made sure all people could vote.
kept people from driving too fast.
- 13. Multiple Choice
In the Montgomery bus boycott Rosa Parks .....
applied to nursing school.
got married.
refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
wanted to stand on the bus.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is a sit in?
Sitting on a bus
Sitting in an area where you are not allowed as a form of protest
Sitting on the floor rather than a chair
Sitting rather than standing at a lunch counter
- 15. Multiple Choice
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- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe decision ended the legal fiction of terra nullius, and was the first timeEddie Mabo was considered a land rights activistan Aboriginal person had won a court casethe land rights debate had entered Australian politicsnative title was recognised in Australia
- 18. Multiple Choice
The group which launched violent attacks on the Freedom Riders was the __________.
Democrats
Republicans
Tea Party
Ku Klux Klan
- 19. Multiple Choice
Who was the leader responsible for developing the Australian Freedom Ride campaign?
Cathy Freeman
Charles Perkins
Anthony Mundine
Vincent Lingiari
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which is the most accurate description of the aims of the Australian Freedom Ride?
Expose the segregation and poor living conditions Aboriginal Australians had to endure
Gain maximum publicity for the Student Action for Aborigines
Build pressure on the Australian government to support the US civil rights movement
Gain Aboriginal Australians the right to vote and be acknowledged as citizens
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