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 political crimes treason theft

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? fast schooner man-of-war steamer hulk

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? assignment system reform system penal system indentured servant system

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

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? Nicholson party William Allen John McDonald Bryant party

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? Macquarie Harbour Heard Island Perth Hobart

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

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