Early Colonial Australia Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- convict : a person found guilty of a crime and sent to australia to serve their time
- emancipist : a convict who has been set free
- governor : a person who is in charge of a colony or state
- colony : a place that is controlled by another country
- james cook : a british explorer who mapped the east coast of australia
- aboriginal : the first peoples of australia
- abel tasman : a dutch explorer who sailed near australia and discovered tasmania
- marines : soldiers who sailed the convict ships to australia
- dutch : the nation that arrived in australia in 1606 but decided not to settle here
- free settler : a person who settled in early colonial australia on their free will
- sydney night watch : first, police-like guards manned by well-behaved convicts
- seven : the amount of years a convict had to be here before being able to choose to return to britain
- first fleet : the name for the group of first convicts that arrived in 1788
- botany bay : the place the first fleet arrived at in 1788
- pound : the currency used in australia at the time
