Unit 20: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Asia & Oceania
Topic 20.8: British colonialism and emerging national identities in Oceania (1788-1919) Questions
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Choose the year in which the Kīngitanga (Māori King) movement was formed.
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Examine the impact of the shift from convict transportation to free immigration on the development of colonial Australia.
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Discuss the role of Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of systematic colonisation in the settlement of Australia and New Zealand.
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Compare and contrast the methods used to acquire indigenous land in Australia with those used in New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
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Examine the social and economic impact of the gold rushes on the Australian colonies between 1851 and the 1860s.
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Evaluate the significance of the Eureka Stockade (1854) in the political development of the Australian colonies.
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To what extent did economic factors drive the movement towards Australian federation in 1901?
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Analyse the reasons why the Gallipoli campaign became a defining moment in the national identity of Australia and New Zealand.
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Evaluate the reasons why Australia and New Zealand gained increased international recognition between 1901 and 1919.
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To what extent was the growth of the labour movement in Australia and New Zealand in the 1890s a direct response to the failures of industrial action?
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Examine the reasons for the dispossession of indigenous peoples in Australia and/or New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
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Evaluate the reasons why the Selection Acts of the 1860s failed to break the dominance of squatters over land in colonial Australia.
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To what extent did the Kīngitanga (Māori King) movement change the nature of conflict between Māori and the Crown?
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Discuss the reasons for, and consequences of, frontier violence between settlers and Aboriginal peoples in colonial Australia.
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Compare and contrast the paths to dominion status followed by Australia and New Zealand.
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Examine the causes of the Taranaki War (1860-61) and the Waikato War (1863-64).
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Analyse the reasons why Britain settled Australia in 1788 and the consequences of this decision for Aboriginal peoples.
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Discuss the view that the First World War divided, rather than united, Australian society.
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Evaluate the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) in shaping relations between the Crown and Māori.
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To what extent was land the primary cause of the New Zealand Wars (1845-1872)?
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