European Settlement in Australia

What does ASTI stand for?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Why were the Aboriginals worries about land?

Europeans were taking their land and closing off waterholes and for sources.

Is Australia part of the European colony?

Yes.

What year did the First Fleet arrive?

1788

What was rumoured to be a sport for the Europeans?

Hunting down Aboriginal people.

What was the main disease that the ATSI people encountered when the European settled in Australia?

Smallpox.

How many ships arrived with the First Fleet?

11

What did the Aboriginals first think about the European Settlers?

They thought of them as dead spirits/ghosts.

What did the Aboriginal people offer people when they first came?

They offered food and woman to the Europeans.

What jobs did the ASTI people undertake under the Europeans?

They became guides for the Europeans and became part of the Native Police

Around how many Indigenous people were killed during raids and frontier battles?

20 000

Why did the ATSI people have have a disadvantages against massacres?

The whites had horses and guns while the ASTI had spears and other wooden weapons.

What is the difference between a massacre and a war?

A massacre is when one party attacks another party and that second party is at a disadvantage and is over powered. A war is when both parties are of equal power and are both willing to fight.

Name 4 diseases besides smallpox that affected the Aboriginals survival?

Tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, influenza

What is the word that describes disposesion of a county?

Terra Nullius. This is what the Europeans thought Australia was even though the ATSI people lived there.

What did the Europeans do without the ASTI's elders permission?

They cleared scared land and fished.

Where were the Aboriginal people sent to live?

Special reserves outside the main cities.

Did the Europeans attempt to preserve the Aboriginal culture?

They did not make any effort to preserve the Aboriginal culture.

Did the Aboriginals have immunity against the European diseases?

No

Did the Aboriginals fight back against the Europeans?

Yes

Harvester Judgement

Set a living or family wage in attempts to allow unskilled labourers to support themselves and their families

Pensions

Money given to the older generation who may not be financially support themselves through work

Immigration restriction act

This Act allowed for prospective immigrants to pass a dictation test. This test would be used to exclude people the government did not want (e.g. Chinese and Japanese especially)

Pacific Islanders Act

Kankas were brought unwillingly to work on cane fields

In 1894, women in South Australia were granted

suffrage, which means ‘the rightto vote’ in that colony’s elections.

Aboriginal people were

dispossessed of their land and increasingly marginalised through colonial government policies during the 1800s.