SOTW Book 3 part 2 CH 24

Match the following

• New South Wales

• Captain James Cook was hired by the English government to sail to Tahiti and look at the planet ______________

• hulks

• When England lost the American colonies, it began to send its prisoners to ancient ships moored in the rivers called _______________________________

• Aborigines

• When Captain Cook discovered Australia, he named the place where he landed _____________________ because of the many strange new plants he saw

• Botany Bay

• He explored the coast of Australia and called the land _______________________________because it reminded him of one of the parts of Great Britain

• Venus

• The were the natives who lived in Australia _________________

The first English colony in Australia was named

• Sydney

• New York

• London

• Melbourne

After sailing to Tahiti, Captain Cook’s secret mission was to

• find the Northwest Passage

• sail south and find the Great Southern Continent

• sail south to Antarctica

• study the plant life of Tahiti

Captain Cook and his men sailed around two large mountainous islands that form the country of

• Australia

• Antarctica

• Hawaii

• New Zealand

The people of Hawaii treated Captain Cook well because

• he told them King George had sent him

• they thought he was a god

• he brought them gold and silver trinkets

• all of the above

What finally happened to Captain Cook?

• He was killed by some of his own sailors

• He froze to death while exploring Antarctica

• Hawaiian natives killed him

• No one knows what became of him

The first English people to settle in Australia were

• prisoners

• Puritans

• scientists

• sailors

_________________ was the first governor of Australia

• James Ruse

• Sydney Cove

• Francis Greenway

• Arthur Phillip

Many squatters made good money by sending _____________ to London to sell.

• coral

• wool

• gold

• timber

Choose all the statements that are true

• When Captain Cook sailed to Tahiti, it was his first voyage at sea.

• Captain Cook’s ship ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

• The first English colony in Australia prospered immediately due to the colonists’ hard work

• The women greatly outnumbered the men in Australia

• As the English claimed more land in Australia, the natives lost their land and their population shrank