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- 1. Multiple Choice
The east coast of Australia was claimed for the British crown by
James Cook
William Dampier
Arthur Phillip
Abel Tasman
- 2. Multiple Choice
The following is not a reason New South Wales became a colony of Britain:
To secure naval stores of timber for shipbuilding
There was an excess of criminals in Britain
Pastoralists needed more land to graze their sheep
To protect British mercantile interests in the Pacific
- 3. Multiple Choice
What were King George’s instructions to the Governor Phillip for establishing NSW in 1788?
Be kind and friendly to the indigenous people; punish anyone who hurts them and keep all convicts imprisoned;
Punish any indigenous people who approach the new settlement and keep all convicts imprisoned
Be kind and friendly to the indigenous people; punish anyone who hurts them and establish an agricultural settlement with convicts as workers;
Punish any indigenous people who approach the new settlement and establish an agricultural settlement with convicts as workers
- 4. Multiple Choice
The government farms at Toongabbie and Rose Hill were planned
To allow convicts more freedom
To provide food for the colony
To provide homes for indigenous people
To isolate people from the smallpox threat at Botany Bay
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which one of these was not one of Governor Macquarie’s policies?
Reformation and discipline of convicts
No land grants to convicts
Promotion of ex-convicts to senior positions
The creation of wide, orderly streets and grand public buildings
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which one of these was not a recommendation of the 1819 Bigge Report?
Encourage free settlers to migrate to NSW, with incentives of land and labour
Increase assignment of convicts to private masters, not public works
Expansion of pastoralism further afield
Decrease punishments of convicts
- 7. Multiple Choice
Transportation to NSW ceased in 1840. What was one reason?
South Australia became the new destination for convicts
Anxiety about the demoralisation of society and new colonists’ aspirations to respectability;
Crimes decreased in Britain and so there was more space in British gaols
Ports were closed because a pandemic broke out that year.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which is not a reason that sheep-grazing was the preferred industry in the early nineteenth century Australian colonies?
Wool was lightweight and durable, therefore ideal for transport and export
Gold had not been discovered
Much of the land was unsuitable for growing crops
It had no ill-effect on the natural environment
- 9. Multiple Choice
What were the impacts of increased pastoralism on indigenous people? More than one answer may be correct.
Obstruction of food and water sources and dispossession of lands
The emergence of a wealthy indigenous squattocracy
Armed rebellion by indigenous people and retaliatory action by the military
Orders from the British government to cease pastoral expansion
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which is not correct about the film on race relations history in Tasmania?
The film-makers wanted viewers to know that Truganani was not the last Tasmanian and featured descendents of aboriginal women abducted by white sealers to show the race has survived.
George Augustus Robinson, Protector of Aborigines, was shown in both a sympathetic light and as a misguided and self-centred man who wanted to destroy the Aboriginal Tasmanians
The film showed evidence of the dehumanising of Tasmanian Aboriginal people by Europeans through collecting and studying of Aboriginal people's body parts
The film criticised Truganani for being too passive and accommodating to Robinson.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which is not an example of the government’s ‘Civilising Mission’ to indigenous people?
Financial support of mission stations
Retaliatory punitive expeditions
Distribution of blankets
Appointments of ‘Protectors of Aborigines’
- 12. Multiple Choice
William Charles Wentworth was
The first person to export wool to England
A governor of New South Wales
A politician and newspaper editor
A missionary
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why, by 1842, were squatters the most powerful group in New South Wales?
The military received took all their orders from them
They were all relatives of the governor or the British aristocracy
They had found gold
Voting and standing for the Legislative Council were confined to men of considerable landholdings and wealth
- 14. Multiple Choice
Mary Reibey was
The first woman elected to NSW parliament
A convict who became a successful businesswoman
The wife of Governor Reibey
A leading member of the Temperance Society
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