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Britain: Losing and Gaining an Empire, 1763–1914

British settlement and the Aborigines

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Recall questions on terra nullius, the demographic impact of settlement, conflict over land and water, Pemulwuy, the Black War and the Black Line.

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What impact did British settlement have on Aborigines?

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What was the doctrine of terra nullius?

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What was the demographic impact of settlement on Aboriginal people?

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  1. 1

    What impact did British settlement have on Aborigines?

    Model answer

    Loss of country, introduced disease and frontier killing reduced the Aboriginal population catastrophically in both colonies.

  2. 2

    What was the doctrine of terra nullius?

    Model answer

    The legal fiction that Australia belonged to no one, which denied Aboriginal ownership and allowed settlement without treaty or purchase.

  3. 3

    What was the demographic impact of settlement on Aboriginal people?

    Model answer

    Catastrophic: smallpox in 1789 killed perhaps half the Sydney population, and disease, dispossession and violence reduced numbers drastically.

  4. 4

    How did land use cause conflict?

    Model answer

    Sheep and cattle destroyed the plants and displaced the animals Aboriginal people depended on, and fenced water sources cut them off from essential resources.

  5. 5

    Who was Pemulwuy?

    Model answer

    The Bidjigal warrior who led resistance around Sydney from 1790 until he was killed in 1802, the best known figure of early Aboriginal resistance.

  6. 6

    What was the frontier violence of this period?

    Model answer

    Reprisal killings on both sides, punitive expeditions by settlers and soldiers, and massacres that were rarely investigated or punished.

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