Australia’s History

1. Australia’s History

2. EQ6:Conflict & Change 6. How did European exploration and colonization impact Australia? (SS6H9a-b) (include the use of prisoners as colonists; diseases and weapons on the indigenous people)

3. HISTORY: CONFLICT & CHANGE SS6H9 The student will explain the impact European exploration and colonization had on Australia. a. (SEE NEXT SLIDE) b. (SEE NEXT SLIDE) AUSTRALIA

4. CONFLICT & CHANGE • Explain the reasons for British colonization of Australia; include the use of prisoners as colonists. • Explain the impact of European colonization of Australia in terms of diseases and weapons on the indigenous peoples of Australia. AUSTRALIA

5. EQ6 Vocabulary • Penal Colony = colony of prisoners • Indigenous = native = aborigines

6. ExplorationTimeline1606-1799

7. Where did the explorers come from?

10. Holland The first records of European mariners sailing into 'Australian' waters occurs around 1606, and includes their observations of the land known as Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land).

11. • 1606 The Dutch vessel Duyfken sails into the Gulf of Carpentaria and makes the first European landfall in Australia on the Cape York Peninsula. • 1616–1622 Dutch traders encounter and explore the west coast of Australia.

12. Holland The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon.

13. • 1623–1636 Dutch ships explore the north coast of Australia.

14. Holland An estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company. They explored north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland.

15. Britain • 1770, English explorer James Cook charts the east coast of Australia east coast and claims it for Britain. • An act of possession, he justified by the seventeenth-century legal concept of terra nullius • ("no man's land" or "empty land") • broadly defined as an absence of "civilization." • Names area 'New South Wales'.

16. Why did they come here?

17. Much of the European exploration of the Pacific was inspired by two obsessions, the search for the fastest routes to the spice-rich islands as well as the theory that somewhere in the South Pacific lay a vast undiscovered southern continent, possibly also rich in gold, spices, and other trade goods.

19. Who & what did they bring with them?

20. • 1786 The British choose Botany Bay south of present-day Sydney as a penal colony.

21. A penal colony • From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and the wives of the marines.

22. The dispossession of Aboriginal peoples begins as European settlers spread inland and along the coast.

23. • 1788 The first British colony is established in New South Wales, led by Captain Arthur Phillip. (11 “cargo” ships) • The colonists consist of about 780 convicts (sentenced to "transportation") • About 250 officers to guard them.

24. TITLE: The convict ship 'Success' at seaDESCRIPTION: The old convict sailing ship 'Success' DATE: 1912

25. A government jail gang, Sydney, N S Wales, 1830

26. Convict Experience • 'We have to work from 14-18 hours a day, sometimes up to our knees in cold water, 'til we are ready to sink with fatigue... The inhuman driver struck one, John Smith, with a heavy thong.'

27. Convicts building a road over the Blue Mountains, NSW, 1833

31. Female Convicts Twenty per cent of these first convicts were women. The majority of women convicts, and many free women seeking employment, were sent to the 'female factories' as unassigned women. The female factories were originally profit-making textile factories.

32. What happened after they arrived?

33. • 1789 Smallpox begins to destroy the Aboriginal population • The decrease in the number of Aboriginal peoples begins to decrease as European settlers spread inland and along the coast.

34. • 1790 Pemulwuy, the first of the Aboriginal resistance fighters, spears Governor Phillip's gamekeeper and Phillip orders the first disciplinary mission. • Pemulwuy leads the Aboriginal resistance in the Sydney area in a guerilla fight lasting several years.

35. Guerilla

36. •1790 & 1791 2 more ‘Cargo’ ships arrive. • 1793 – First free settlers arrive • 1799 The Black War begins, a six-year battle waged by Aborigines against white settlement in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta areas of New South Wales.

37. •1802 Pemulwuy (Aboriginal resistance fighter) is captured and executed, but his son Tedbury continues his resistance.

38. 1810 - Convicts were used: • As a source of labor • To advance and develop the British colony. • to develop the public facilities of the colonies - roads, causeways, bridges, courthouses and hospitals. • To work for free settlers and small land holders.

39. How did Australia change?

45. White settlers sometimes poisoned and hunted Aboriginal people and abused and exploited Aboriginal women and children.

46. “Protection” Acts &Child-Removal Policy • It was only after the 1880s, once most Aboriginal opposition had been crushed in eastern Australia, that Australian colonies began passing oppressive legislation to control Aboriginal people in the name of protection.

47. Between 1886 and 1911 the colonies (and, after 1901, the states) introduced laws that restricted the movement of Aboriginal people to government reserves and controlled most aspects of their lives, including where they could work and whom they could marry.

48. These reserves were, for the most part, small, circumscribed areas where residents could not lead independent self-sufficient lives.

49. Reserve residents lived in makeshift housing and worked on cattle and sheep stations, or, if there was no work, lived on government rations.

50. Between 1788 and 1930 the Aboriginal population fell from as many as 500,000 to less than 100,000.