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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was the outcome of the 1967 Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution?
Indigenous Australians were granted the right to vote
Indigenous Australians were included in the census
Indigenous Australians were recognised by the United Nations Human Rights Council
All of the above
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was the actual policy name of the Stolen Generation that was given in Victoria?
The Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill
The Aboriginal Protection Act
The Indigenous Procreation Initiative
The Aboriginal Prosperity Initiative
- 3. Multiple Choice
What year did the Stolen Generation begin in Australia?
1914
1869
1911
Trick question - the Stolen Generation was the result of various policies put forward by various governments at different times. There is no one, single date.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why did the Australian State Governments want to enact the Aboriginal Protection Act?
To protect British settlers from Aboriginal violence.
To 'breed out' the black colour of the Indigenous Peoples and eradicate the aboriginal 'race'.
To deny aboriginal people the rights and freedoms of white Australians.
Because the Federal Government had not been formed yet and the states wanted total control.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a referendum?A big wordA direct vote by citizens of an electorate on a change to the constitutionA change to the constitutionA vote on a change to the constitution by non-citizens
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the term for giving up your own minority culture and adopting the culture of the majority?AcculturationAssimilationPrimogenitureHeredity
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the Stolen Generation?A generation of people who moved out of the countryA generation that survived on stealing from EuropeansA generation of Indigenous Australians that were taken and raised by white peopleA generation of babies that disappeared mysteriously, likely stolen and raised by kangaroos and dingos
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following details the affect of British settlement towards to Australia's Aboriginals?
Loss of home and traditional hunting grounds
Loss of culture
Death through smallpox and other diseases
All of the above
- 11. Multiple Choice
In 1967, the Australian Constitution was amended so that the Aborigines
were allowed to assimilate with the British.
were allowed to elect their own leaders.
were counted with the rest of the Australian population.
were allowed to reclaim their native land.
- 12. Multiple Choice
In 1948, which document was created to explain what rights were given to all humans?
Declaration of Independence
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which international peacekeeping organization created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The United Nations
The World Health Organization
NATO
The Organization of American States
- 14. Multiple Choice
What major world conflict prompted the need for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the United Nations itself?
World War I
World War II
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
- 15. Multiple Choice
How many articles represent the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
10
12
30
21
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat are human rights?Rights only the richest are entitled to.Rights that all people have simply because they are human.A responsibility that people have as humans.Rights that only children have.
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