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Europeans in Austalia

Achieving Self-Government

  • In 1901 Britain help unite all the colonies of Australia
  • Kept it's ties with Britain by recognizing the british monarch as head of state
  • Australian constitution drew on both British and American models
  • Was first nation to introduce secret ballot

The Colonies Grow

  • Britain encouraged them to go Australia
  • wool industry started grew because the land was good for sheepherding
  • gold hunters stayed to become farmers and ranchers
  • as newcomers came to settle in Aborigines were being killed

the First Settlers

  • First Europeans to go to Australia were the Dutch in 1600s
  • Captain James Cook claimed Australia in 1770 for Britain
  • First Settlers had reached it 40,000 years earlier by a people called Aborigines
  • called themselves Kooris
  • Aborigines groups spoke 250 different languages

Self-Rule for Canada,

Australia, and New Zealand

the Penal Colony

  • 1700s Britain sent convicts to its North American colonies
  • the prisons were taking up space so they started dumping in Australia
  • British ships sent 700 convicts to Botany Bay, Australia in 1788 on a 8 month voyage

New Zealand's Story

Britain Responds

  • Brtian learned from the American Revolution
  • Sent Lord Durham to file a report about the unrest
  • Parliment acted on some of his requests by passing the Act of union
  • Jioning the Canadas into one province in 1840

Canda Becomes A Dominion

Canada Achieves Self-Rule

The Maori Struggle

  • Mid-1800s thousands of English, Scottish, and Irish people immigrated to canada
  • Many poeple urged confederation or unification of Britians Aorth America Colonies
  • Britian agreed to pass the British north America Act of 1867
  • Created a dominion goverment
  • Missionaries land in Australia in 1814
  • Maori-indigenous people, of New Zealand
  • Were settled farmers
  • Missionaries tried to convert them to Christianity
  • Settlers were attracted by New Zealand's mild climate and good soil
  • Introduced sheep and cattle

the Maori Struggle Cont...

  • Colonists poured in taking over more land in brutal wars with the Maori
  • Many died in the fight but more died from disease, alcoholism, and other thing that europeans brought with them
  • population dropped from 200,000 to 45,00 in 1896 and has recently been rising

Chapter 25.3

Unrest in the two Canadas

Settlers Win

Self-Government

  • France lost Canada to Britain in 1765
  • 30,000 British loyalists fled to Canada after the American Revolution.
  • The ethnic tension caused Britain to pass the Constitutional Act of 1791 creating English-speaking upper Canada and French-speaking lower Canada.
  • English tradditions and laws ruled the Upper Canada
  • 1907 won independence
  • their own parliament
  • prime minister
  • elected legislature
  • still had close ties with British Empire

By: Bronlow Miller

& Brent Davis

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