Internal colonialism in Ireland

History

What religion was followed by the majority of Irish people?

What was the name given to Protestant dominance over Ireland's people and land by the 18th century?

After joining the UK in 1801, many people in Ireland could vote for representatives in the ...

What sport did Irish people play as a form of resistance to British influence?

For many years, Australia was a penal colony for Britain. This meant that many of the very first settlers were ...

British settlers in Australia used violence and the army to take land from Aboriginal people. These conflicts are known as ...

self-government for the Australian colonies

Which of the following encouraged hundreds of thousands more free settlers to move to Australia in the 1850s?

They claimed that Aboriginal people were an inferior 'race' and a 'backward' people, and therefore had no rights to the land.

They claimed that the Aboriginal people gave it to them.

They claimed that the Governor had forced them to take the land from Aboriginal people.

They claimed that they had paid the Aboriginal people for the land.

How did many settlers justify taking land from Aboriginal people?

By the end of the nineteenth century, many Aboriginal people were forced to live in and not allowed to leave ...