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Year 5 History · Founding the Australian colonies

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. Which was the first British colony in Australia?
- ☐ (a) Victoria
- ☐ (b) New South Wales
- ☐ (c) South Australia
- ☐ (d) Queensland
2. Which colony was planned for free settlers only, with no convicts?
- ☐ (a) South Australia
- ☐ (b) Van Diemen's Land
- ☐ (c) New South Wales
- ☐ (d) Moreton Bay
3. What was Tasmania called before 1856?
- ☐ (a) New Holland
- ☐ (b) Swan River
- ☐ (c) Van Diemen's Land
- ☐ (d) Port Phillip
4. Which colony separated from New South Wales in 1859?
- ☐ (a) Victoria
- ☐ (b) Western Australia
- ☐ (c) South Australia
- ☐ (d) Queensland
5. What does 'dispossession' mean?
- ☐ (a) Having land and property taken away
- ☐ (b) Buying a house
- ☐ (c) Moving to a new school
- ☐ (d) Building a fence
6. In what year did the Swan River Colony begin?
7. How many years after New South Wales (1788) was South Australia (1836) founded?
8. Which colony separated from New South Wales in 1851?

Answer sheet

1. New South Wales — New South Wales was established in 1788.
2. South Australia — South Australia (1836) was planned without convicts.
3. Van Diemen's Land — It was called Van Diemen's Land.
4. Queensland — Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859.
5. Having land and property taken away — First Nations peoples were dispossessed of their lands by colonisation.
6. 1829 — The Swan River Colony, later Western Australia, began in 1829.
7. 48 — 1836 − 1788 = 48.
8. Victoria — Victoria separated in 1851, the same year gold was found there.