The transportation of convicts to Australia was phased out between 1840 and 1868. By 1860, the continent of Australia had been divided into five separate colonies (not officially states yet, mate but separation away from New South Wales), each not seeing eye-to-eye and exhibiting more loyalty to London to each other. A major force within the colonies was the “fighting” – the rich officers and settlers had opportunities which had followed the explorers into fertile hinterlands. They simply laid claim to or “squatted” upon enormous tracts of land, often 20,000 acres and more. Free for all, mate with lots of social tension.
The difference in education and in the writer’s background history comes into play with the writings of Crevecoeur and Schlesinger. Crevecoeur was born in Normandy in 1731. He was educated in England and immigrated to America in 1754, at the age of 23. Settling in New York Crevecoeur married an American merchant’s daughter. In few years later he had to make an emergency trip back over seas and was arrested under false pretence of being a spy and stayed in prison for 3 months.
Some tribes at first welcomed or tolerated the newcomers, but as it became clear that the British intended to stay, conflict escalated. Aboriginal groups mounted effective guerrilla campaigns but were eventually overwhelmed by the new repeater rifle, horsepower and the armed might of colonial governments. Removed from their land, deprived of their traditional bush food and devastated by disease, malnutrition, poverty, alcoholism, violence and despair, most Aboriginal people existed on town fringes and pastoral properties or were herded onto
country music Australia Sharnee Fry Yr 9 Music- Country The foundation of country music began almost 200 years ago with the didgeridoo, bullroarer, clap-sticks and the corroboree set the boundaries for development of country music. In 1788 the first fleet of ships to Australia brought convicts and their gaolers, exiles, the new arrivals brought folk melodies and music hall ballads from old countries and soon they began adapting these songs to reflect their new lives. They told of the hardship and, isolation and injustice they endured. Many of the first Australian songs told of bushrangers or bolters, the banjo, mouth organ, concertina, tea chest and penny whistle were popular instruments. 1920’s to 1940’s Two developments had a profound influence on the future of Australian country music in the 1920’s: * The introduction of radio in 1923 (By 1929 more than three hundred thousand Australian homes had a radio license) * The spread of phonograph (by 1929 many houses had a wind-up gramophone By the 1930’s, country music was an established part of rural life.
1770 April 29 Captain James Cook in the Endeavour entered Botany Bay. After an encounter with local people in Botany Bay Cook wrote that "all they seem'd to want was us to be gone". 1786 August 18 the British Government chose Botany Bay as a penal colony. 1788 18 January Captain Arthur Phillip entered Botany Bay. A total of nine ships sailed into Botany Bay over three days.
There is a record of 8 petitions during Revolutionary War period. Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion, the most politicized of all the slave rebels, formulated his plans during the divisive election of 1800, when Federalists and Republicans threatened to take up arms against one another. The rebels in the Tidewater area of Virginia, despite the memory of the repression that followed Gabriel's death, began to organize again during the chaos of the War of 1812. Most of all, slaves, who well knew what they were up against and rarely contemplated suicidal ventures, plotted for their freedom only when safer avenues had been closed to them. For most of the seventeenth century, for example, when the high death rate in the southern colonies made inexpensive white indentured servants far more numerous than costly African slaves, enterprising bondpersons relied more on self-purchase than the sword.
The ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic and the colony was abandoned, leaving the escaped slaves behind on North American soil. In 1565, the colony of Saint Augustine in Florida, founded by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, became the first permanent European settlement in North America. It included an unknown number of free and enslaved Africans that were part of this colonial expedition. The first recorded Africans in British North America (including most of the future United States) arrived in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia.
Jiayao Zhang 12 Years a Slave The film “ Twelve Years a Slave” is based on a true story wrote by Solomon Northup, a free African-American in Washington, D.C. who got kidnapped and sold to Louisiana, enslaved for twelve years. As we can see in the film, When Solomon first captured by the slavery, he tried to tell everyone he is a free man, but all he got is whipping. After he has been sold to William Ford and named as Platt, he shows his wisdom and talent of violin to get Ford’s favor. But he got himself in trouble with the white leader, Solomon ended up transferring to another slavemaster Edwin Epps. At this point, he started to hide his knowledge and skills.
Many people have been killed retrieving the gems; about 3.7 million have died in diamond-fuelled wars. Millions of others have lost their homes and livelihoods. Neighboring countries are also suffering from illegal diamond trade, since nearby countries can be used as trading and transit grounds for the illegal gems. Other countries like The Congo and Angola suffer from wars within themselves between warlords who fight over the mined diamonds to be smuggled into the industry. Dozens of rebel forces also exploit the use of children in child
The Careers try to kill everyone so they can steal gain extra supplies. Their plan is to kill everybody, and then turning around to kill each other. When it is the start of the Hunger Game, there is a circle of backpacks filled with supplies. The Careers fight everyone off and take almost everything. It isn’t easy to kill with one’s bare hands, so there must be weapons.