Send 'Em to New South Wales!

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1. You are a convicted criminal in Britain who has just been notified that you will serve your sentence in the colony of New South Wales. What crime did you most likely commit? murder theft treason political crimes

2. Why did the British government decide to send convicted criminals to a British colony about 10,000 miles away? All of these Britain did not have a penitentary system Sending criminals to the American colonies was not an option Many of the British were afraid of the "criminal classes"

3. If you were a prisoner sentenced to exile in New South Wales, on what type of ship would you be first placed? man-of-war fast schooner hulk steamer

4. As a convict arriving in New South Wales, you might have been placed with a settler to do farm labor. What was this system called? indentured servant system penal system assignment system reform system

5. How many women were sent to Australia as convicts? about 25,000 5,000 or fewer no women were sent more than 50,000

6. You are a convict who is paid with both small amounts of money and with goods. One of these "goods" causes a lot of problems with the convicts in New South Wales. What is it? opium right to employ other convicts land rum

7. Some of the convicts escaped, either into the bush or to the sea. Who made a famous escape from Sydney to Timor, only to be caught again? Bryant party John McDonald Nicholson party William Allen

8. You are a convict in New South Wales who is being sent to "Hell's Gate", a fearful work prison. Where are you going? Hobart Perth Macquarie Harbour Heard Island

9. What finally put an end to the British government's policy of transporting its convicts to New South Wales? the government paid a bounty for people to emigrate to New South Wales reformers called for an end to the system all of these a gold rush in 1850

10. What other historical event does the exile of British prisoners most resemble, according to "The Fatal Shore"? Great Awakening in the United States Atlantic Slave Trade Velvet Revolution in Czechoslavakia Gulag in the Soviet Union