Key Figures

Question 1

Thomas Paine

Answer 1

Pamphlet released ‘common sense’ 1776
Popularised enlightenment during war

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

Represented Virgina in the continental congress and wrote up majority of declaration of independence 1776

Question 3

Sam Adams

Answer 3

member of congress in Massachusetts, organised sons of liberty and founding father

Question 4

King George III

Answer 4

Greatly against American independence and rebellion

Question 5

Generals Burgoyne / Cornwallis / Howe / Clinton

Answer 5

Burgoyne - defeat at Saratoga 1777

Cornwallis - Yorktown 1781

Howe - Bunker hill 1775

Clinton - Siege of Boston

Question 6

Captain Phillip

Answer 6

move from Botany Bay to parramatta

Rationing supplies of first fleet

strict control over convicts

Attempted peace with the aborigines

Establishing second colony on Norfolk island

Question 7

Macquarie

Answer 7

removal of NSW corps

Native school + attempted cohabitation with aborigines

Establishing market place in Sydney

Currency to end rum trade

Public work schemes, rads, churches, schools and new general hospital

Tickets of leave and early pardons

freed convicts gained free farm land

Bigge report and NSW act 1822/23

Question 8

Captain Cook

Answer 8

Discovery of Botany Bay

Mapping advancements

Laid claim before French and gave Britain an advantage against the dutch

Question 9

Governor Arthur

Answer 9

VDL Governor
Martial law
Black war
intense punishment - 7 stages

Question 10

John Bigge

Answer 10

Bigge report 1822
all convicts should be assigned to sheep farms
Tickets of leave and early pardons to be eradicated

Question 11

William Lyon Mackenzie

Answer 11

radical reformer who advocated for democratic freedoms and wanted to limit the power of the family compact in upper Canada - lacked leadership skills

Question 12

Robert Baldwin

Answer 12

moderate reformer

Question 13

Louis-Joseph Papineau

Answer 13

Reformer in lower Canada, French Canadian nationalist who opposed any reforms to French land system
presented 92 resolutions to gov

Question 14

Durham report

Answer 14

1839
Unification of upper and lower canada
- English became the official language
- Governor role became just a figure head

Question 15

Governor Head

Answer 15

Forced moderates out of legislative assembly in upper Canada removing any legal influence for reform 1836

Question 16

Governor Colbourne

Answer 16

Used tax revenues to pay for officials salary

Land set aside for clergy reserves for the anglican church, leaving less land for settlers

Question 17

Governor Bentinck

Answer 17

Culture clashes
Began legal reforms against thagi early 1830s
outlawing Sati 1829, female infanticide 1802

Question 18

Governor Dalhousi