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