Settler colonialism in Australia

History

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 ...

What was the title given to the top governor of India, appointed by the queen?

The British thought that marrying Indian women would upset the Indian people

They thought that Indian women would kill the British officials

They wanted to keep clear boundaries between the white 'race' and Indians

Why were British officials in India encouraged not to marry Indian women?

Who was allowed to judge criminal cases involving white British people in the countryside?

How many people are estimated to have died in famines in India in the last 25 years of the nineteenth century?

Indian religious and cultural communities were important in supporting self-help strategies for responding to British colonialism

Indians thought that self-help was a pointless response to British colonialism

The British directly helped many Indians to set up their own businesses

The British put a lot of money into supporting Indian self-help groups