Australia

Question 1

Economy

Answer 1

-Scots worked in remote settlements in the outback as farmers and they made their own towns
-they brought new farming techniques with them
-George Russel had 8000 sheep and 30p cattle in tasmania earning a £100 salary
-Neil Back and Co was founded bu three Scots and developed over 44000 acres of land

Question 2

Economy

Answer 2

-refrigerated ships allowed Scots to make money by shipping meat and dairy products to Britain for sale
-Andrew McIlwraith and Malcolm McEarchatn founded a shipping company carrying refrigerated goods to Britain and carrying immigrants on the return journey

Question 3

Economy

Answer 3

-many Scots tried their luck in the gold rush of the 1850s
-this was a mass of people moving to find gold in Australia after one claim of finding gold
-many chose to settle nn these areas and work in coal mines
-Scots also dominated
Finance
Engineering
Vineyards and wine
Coal mining
Sugar
-James and Alexander Brown set up large coal mines n New South Wales and employed mang scots

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

-Scottish societies
-burns clubs
-some regions have their own tartan
-Australian songs written by Scots

Question 5

Education

Answer 5

-Scottish Presbyterian churches set up many secondary schools in Victoria
-Head of teacher training in 1892 was James semple kerr
-Melbourne academy’s second head teacher was Alexander Morris on who had worked at Elgin Academy

Question 6

Politics

Answer 6

-Catherine Helen Spence was the first female political candidate in Australia
-she was also the first female journalist
-nicknames ‘Australia’s greatest woman’

Question 7

Natives

Answer 7

-Scots were in conflict with the aborigines
-these people resented being limited by ownership
-in 1884 the Fraser family fro Scotland built a sheep and cattle farm in Hornet Bank which spread to aboriginal territory
-the aborigines killed the Fraser family and 3 other white Europeans
-William Fraser returned home and killed 100 aborigines wiping out the tribe that killed his family
-Hornet Bank massacre 1854

Question 8

Native societies

Answer 8

-John and Alex Mortimer stood up for aboriginal rights
-some Scots married aborigines and now some tribes have surnames like Campbell