Year 10 History Notes
Year 10 History 2025
Course for Year 10 History in 2025.
Communication Consistency & Care
Communication Consistency: Regularly completing work and communicating with teachers and classmates.
Care: Maintaining personal standards for learning and development.
History Teachers Year 10
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Jana
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Bookwork Note
Google Classroom is used for homework tasks, revision, and uploading resources.
Class code: e2Iuhxo
Rules for bookwork:
Rule a margin on each page.
Include the date on each page.
Write a heading at the top of each page.
Use subheadings.
Write neatly, using a pen for writing and a pencil for diagrams.
Preparation!
Planner/Calendar:
Write down important dates (assignments, tests, projects).
Plan study sessions in advance.
Set Goals:
Break big tasks into smaller steps.
Set weekly/daily goals.
Consistent Study Habits:
Set a regular study time each day.
Review notes after each lesson.
Keep Materials Organized:
Maintain a checklist of needed items for each subject.
Avoid Last-Minute Cramming:
Start assignments early.
Revise consistently.
We need to Know You!
Key historical topics:
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Who were important leaders in the Civil Rights Movement?
What was slavery?
How did colonization affect Indigenous Australians?
What caused World War 1?
What role did Australia play in World War 2?
Why did the Vietnam War happen?
What was the Space Race?
What does ANZAC mean?
World Map
World map displayed with labeled continents and countries to highlight geographical knowledge and awareness.
Year 10 History Course 2024
Movement of Peoples - Slavery:
Influence of the Industrial Revolution on population movement, including the transatlantic slave trade and convict transportation.
Rights and Freedoms - ATSI struggle and the US Civil Rights Movement:
Origins and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), including Australia's involvement.
Australians at War (WW1 and WW2):
Overview of the causes of the wars, reasons for enlistment, and where Australians fought.
Australia in the Vietnam War era - The sixties and Vietnam War:
Overview of the causes of the Vietnam War and the influence of the Sixties on the world.
Assessment Schedule
Mini Documentary: 20% Term 3, Week 4
Half-yearly Examination: 20% Term 1, Week 8 (In-class task)
Yearly Examination: 30% Term 3, Exam Week (01)
Yearly Examination: 30% Term 2, Exam Week (03)
How much do you know?
Questions to consider:
Reasons for people's movement?
Modes of transportation?
Historical events causing movement?
Recent events causing movement?
01 Movement of Peoples:
The Industrial Revolution, Slavery, and Early European Settlement.
Movement of People
Early travel methods:
Walking.
Horses and carriages (larger carriages indicated wealth).
Boats.
Historical sources provide understanding of the past and are analyzed to learn more.
Industrial Revolution- Context for the movement of peoples
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18^{th} century (1750s).
Manufacturing shifted from homes/villages to large centers, gathering people, materials, and technology.
4 key features of the Industrial Revolution
Urbanization:
Rapid growth of urban areas.
Shift from self-grown food to dependence on others for resources due to factories.
Urban: relating to towns and cities.
4 key features of the Industrial Revolution
Factories:
First factory in Cromford (1769) employed about 300 people.
By 1789, employed 800 people, mostly unskilled.
Machines replaced jobs within 30 years; children were also employed.
4 key features of the Industrial Revolution
Child labor and working conditions
Factories hired women and children to save money.
Long hours (around 16 hours a day).
Physical abuse to increase production.
Limited natural light through windows.
Many accidents due to limited safety precautions.
Limited breaks (only for lunch and dinner).
4 key features of the Industrial Revolution
Dirt, smoke and pollution
Sanitary conditions worsened with population density.
Lack of hygiene knowledge led to diseases like cholera, typhoid, and typhus.
Industrial Revolution
Video assignment:
Watch the first 10 minutes and 30 seconds of the video on the Industrial Revolution.
Answer the following questions:
What kick started a revolution in 18th Century Britain?
What was the main source of energy in Britain?
Why did Britain need a new source of fuel?
What are the benefits of coal over wood?
Why did the British need water pumps?
What drove the I.R? How did the society of Britain at the time fuel the I.R?
Causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution
Causes:
New inventions/technology.
Transportation.
Access to materials.
Money.
Effects:
Rise of factories (industrialization).
People moving from rural areas to suburbs (urbanization).
Expansion of the middle class (businessmen).
Increase in pollution.
Opened world trade.
Population growth.
Industrial Revolution- Working Conditions
Discussion question: Discuss the working conditions during the Industrial Revolution. /4 marks
Verb- Discuss: (advantages and disadvantages)
Research Task
Research 3 new inventions created during the Industrial Revolution (identify and explain what they did).
Recap of Industrial Revolution
Exam style questions:
Explain the impact of industrial Revolution on the modern world. (5 marks)
Verb-Explain - (cause and effect)
Glossary terms
Terms to define: Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, Urbanisation, Labour, Transportation, Emigrate, Immigrants, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Slaves, Slavery, Consequences, Abolition, Free settlers, Convicts, Indigenous people, Literacy.
Task: Define Each Term and place each term in a sentence.
Slavery
European population increase led to significant migration to new European colonies.
Migrants included: Slaves, Convicts, Free settlers.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Diagram illustrating the trade routes and goods exchanged during the Transatlantic Slave Trade including:
Resources from america.
Slaves transported from africa.
Manufactured goods from Europe.
Research task
What was the Transatlantic slave trade?
Who was involved?
When did it happen?
Why did it happen?
How many slaves were transported?
Where did they go?
Trade- People and Goods
View the following video on the Transatlantic or Atlantic slave trade and record key ideas in your exercise book.
Ideas need to address:
Its occurrence
Its purpose
Reasons to sell slaves
Experiences of slaves
Effect of the slave trade
Slavery
Transportation of slaves, and middle passage
Slaves were in intolerably cramped conditions being fit in available places below the decks of the ship. The men were usually shackled together in pairs using leg irons, or shackles.
Experiences of slaves
Activity: What is taking place in this Source?
How is a person or people of colour viewed at the time?
Who is feeling uncomfortable and what is the agenda of the person who made this image?
The sale and auction of slaves
Advertisement of Slave Dealer, Charleston, South Carolina, 1835
Handbill offering cash to all persons that have slaves to dispose of….
People who needed slaves sometimes handed handbills to public.
Captives . . . are hobbled with roughly hewn logs which chafe their limbs to open sores; sometimes a whole tree presses its weight on their bodies while their necks are penned into the natural prong formed by its branching limbs
When the slave ship arrived, the slaves would be taken off the ship and placed in a pen. There, they would be washed and their skin covered with grease, or sometimes tar, to make them look more healthy.
The Grab and Go Auction
Buyers paid the trader an agreed amount of money and received a ticket for each slave they wanted to purchase.
At the sound of a drum roll, the door to the slave pen would be opened, and the buyers would rush in and grab the slave or slaves that they wanted.
The buyers then checked their slaves out by returning their ticket or tickets to the slave trader.
Life as a slave, daily experiences, status and rights
Life of endless labor, up to 18 hours a day, longer at busy periods such as harvest; no weekends or rest days.
Housing provided on some plantations, others required slaves to build their own homes like those in Africa with thatched roofs.
Cramped living conditions with sometimes as many as ten people sharing a hut.
Slaves had very limited rights. In America, they only had the right to not be murdered,but that wasn't enforced by anything other than property law.
What is the agenda/purpose of the historical photo and image on the slide?
Working as a slave, plantations
Slaves worked up to 18 hours a day, sometimes longer at busy periods such as harvest. There were no weekends or rest days.
The dominant experience for most Africans was work on the sugar plantations.
The major secondary crop was coffee, which employed sizable numbers on Jamaica, Dominica, St Vincent, Grenada, St Lucia, Trinidad and Demerara.
Children under the age of six, a few elderly people and some people with physical disabilities were the only people exempt from labour.
The underground railroad
In 1850, the value for trained slaves was very high (around 2500), so they were chased by their masters or bounty hunters if they ever escaped.
The antislavery transportation of slaves to freedom had to be done under the utmost secret of conditions.
This system worked much like a railroad so it was called The Underground Railroad.
Profile- Harriet Tubman
Research questions:
When was she born? Where?
Was she a slave? Provide more details.
How did she escape?
What was her role in the Underground Railroad?
Key Points
Task: Fill in the blanks.
The __ Revolution started in the USA/UK, and was a dramatic change in the efficiency with which goods were produced.
It began in 1650/1750/1850/1950.
Some of its main causes were… (list 4)
Its main features were… (list 4)
The increased production in this period lead to the T____ Atlantic Slave Trade
Slaves were taken from and shipped to… (list 3 destinations)
Landowners in the colonies acquired slaves by…
Two of the main products grown by slaves were…
The colonies shipped agricultural/manufactured goods to Europe, such as… (list 3)
And the European countries shipped agricultural/manufactured goods such as… (list 3) to Africa and the Americas
The total number of slaves transported was…
The Slave Trade ended in 1708/1808/1908/2008.
Conversation Starters
Discussion questions about the slave trade and its effects:
How were slaves acquired from Africa?
Why were fewer slaves transported to the USA than other colonies?
What has been the effect of the Slave Trade on the United States today?
What were the ongoing effects of the Slave Trade on Africa, both while it was happening and after it was abolished?
Why did the industrial revolution create a need for slavery in European colonies?
Cause and Effects
The Industrial Revolution happened because…
This caused a need for slaves in the colonies because…
The effects on the slaves were terrible, such as…
The effects on Africa were…
The effects on the modern-day USA have been…
The Underground Railroad
Increasing numbers of discontented slaves escaped to the North or to Canada via the Underground Railroad network of antislavery advocates in the decades preceding the American Civil War.
Publicity in the North concerning Black rebellions and the influx of fugitive slaves helped to arouse wider sympathy for the plight of the slave and support for the abolition movement.
In the European colonies of the Caribbean, slave resistance, rebellions, and revolution similarly contributed to the eventual abolition of slavery.
American Civil War
Research task:
When did it happen?
Who was involved?
How did slavery factor in?
What was the outcome?
How was slavery abolished?
Convicts
Increased crime due to hardship and poverty in new industrial cities, leading to overcrowded jails.
Britain sent convicts to Americas and Australia to address this issue.
Over 162,000 convicted British criminals were transported to Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868.
Activity: Write a letter to your family from the perspective of a convict being shipped to Australia, detailing your crime and feelings about leaving your homeland.
Find a convict
Research and select a convict who was on the First Fleet (1788) or on ships that were brought to Australia after the First Fleet.
Answer the following questions:
Who is the convict?
What crime did they commit to be sent to the new colony (Australia)?
How long were they sentenced to?
Did they stay in Australia or leave when they completed their sentence?
What did they do when they were free?
How were they treated in Australia?
Life of free settlers (1788)
Why did free settlers come to a new country?
Free settlers came to Australia to start a new life, paying for their own transport.
Usually they were quite wealthy.
Some started farms and got convict servants to help them with jobs.
Free settlers didn't just come to Australia to be farmers.
Some became doctors or military officers.
Others came to open stores and markets that they knew people may need.
What jobs did the free settlers have?
What did free settlers eat?
Free settlers had the same diet as the convicts: bread, rice and vegetables.
But if they started growing their own crops they could eat their food, however this was difficult because the conditions in Australia are different to Britain and so crops did not grow the same way.
Females were only allowed 2/3 of a males serving of food.
How did settlers change Australia
today?
Impact of colonisation
Homes of free settlers
Free settlers homes were made from a native wattle tree.
The first fleet didn't bring enough building materials so they had to build with what they had.
The first church was made from wattle as well.
What did the free settlers think of Aboriginal people?
By 1797, the attitude towards Aboriginal people had changed.
Initially the free settlers tried to get along with Aboriginal people, however this soon changed when free settlers began to take more land.
The main policy for the treatment of Aboriginal people became to place them in reserves.
Australian Settlers
Conduct your own research and answer the following questions:
Why did the British move from the UK to Australia?
Explain why living conditions in Britain were so poor at the time.
How did the Industrial Revolution cause people to emigrate to new locations?
How did the colony in Australia grow from convicts to free settlers?
When did Australia become a nation? What does this mean?
How did settlers change Australia today?
Impact of colonisation