What impact did the British have on Aboriginal people 1788-1829

Question 1

What did Captain Cook do when he arrived in Australia in terms of aboriginals?

Answer 1

Ignored the Kings orders to obtain consent of the natives

Question 2

What did Captain Cook say about the aboriginals?

Answer 2

That it was unnecessary to engage with aboriginals and that they had no claim to the land as they didn’t cultivate it

Question 3

How many years had the Aboriginals been in Australia?

Answer 3

50,000+

Question 4

What did the Aboriginals believe in?

Answer 4

Ancestor worship, dreaming, knowledge of land and its past and creatures

Question 5

How many aboriginals were there?

Answer 5

300,000-700,000 to possibly 1 million

Question 6

How did the aboriginals adapt to their environment?

Answer 6

Set permanent fish traps in rivers and boulders
Complex structures on stilts
Grew and harvested grain

Question 7

How did the Yuin people attract whales

Answer 7

Lit fires to attract killer whales to herd larger whales
Drove them into shallow waters and killed them
Shared the tongue with the killer whale

Question 8

How many Eora people were there?

Answer 8

2,500

Question 9

Why did tensions grow between the British and the Eora people?

Answer 9

Convicts stole from them

Question 10

When did the Aboriginals attack?

Answer 10

30 May 1788, 2 convicts were killed and their bodies were mangled and butchered

Question 11

How did the British punish the convicts?

Answer 11

They were flogged in front of the Aboriginals and the Aboriginals turned their backs out of sympathy

Question 12

What happened at the whale feats Phillip was invited to?

Answer 12

He was speared in the shoulder due to him kidnapping Aboriginal people

Question 13

Who was Bennelong?

Answer 13

Senior Eora member

Question 14

What happened between Bennelong and Phillip?

Answer 14

They maintained a relationship after he was freed§

Question 15

What % of Aboriginals got wiped out by smallpox

Answer 15

50% as they had no resistance

Question 16

What was smallpox used for against the Aboriginals

Answer 16

Deliberate biological warfare

Question 17

How was smallpox transferred to the Aboriginals

Answer 17

By clothing and goods

Question 18

What was martial law?

Answer 18

Legal immunity given to colonists for killing aboriginal people

Question 19

When was martial law?

Answer 19

1829

Question 20

What was the black line?

Answer 20

A 6 week military offence to drive out Aboriginal people

Question 21

When was the black line?

Answer 21

1830

Question 22

Where were the Aboriginals moved to?

Answer 22

Flinders island and they died out

Question 23

What happened in the black war? (Tasmania)

Answer 23

600-900 Aboriginals were killed
200 Europeans were killed

Question 24

When did the last Tasmanian die?

Answer 24

1876

Question 25

When was the Appin massacre

Answer 25

17 April 1816

Question 26

How did the Appin massacre happen?

Answer 26

It was the result of Macquarie's orders of an expedition in the Liverpool district, Hawkesbury river and goose valley

Question 27

What did Macquarie say about the clearing of the land and destroying of Aboriginal homes?

Answer 27

"Clear the land of Aboriginal people and to set examples through violence and hostage taking"

Question 28

How many died in the Appin massacre?

Answer 28

14

Question 29

What did Macquarie report about on the Appin massacre?

Answer 29

Informed Bathurst that several were unavoidably killed because they had not surrendered

Question 30

What did the proclamation state?

Answer 30

No aboriginal could carry an offensive weapon within a mile of a white settlement No gathering in groups of 6 Guven passports