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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Choose the correct date on which Captain Arthur Phillip landed the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.
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Choose the correct year in which gold was discovered near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering the Australian gold rushes.
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Choose the correct description of who 'squatters' were in colonial Australia.
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Choose the term used in the Māori-language text of the Treaty of Waitangi that was weaker than the English 'sovereignty'.
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Choose the approximate number of Australian deaths at the Gallipoli campaign.
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Choose the individual most associated with launching the Australian federation movement through his 1889 Tenterfield Oration.
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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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Examine the impact of the shift from convict transportation to free immigration on the development of colonial Australia.
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Evaluate the significance of the Eureka Stockade (1854) in the political development of the Australian colonies.
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Choose the name of the British colonial theorist whose ideas shaped the planned settlement of South Australia and the New Zealand Company's settlements.
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Choose the correct description of how Fiji came under British control in 1874.
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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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Choose the year in which the Commonwealth of Australia was formed, uniting six colonies into one federal nation.
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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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