Page 2 - #18110100101 DISPLACING THE INDEGENOUS PEOPLE

• In 1860, the USA had an undeveloped economy. In 1890, it was the leading
industrial power in the world.
• Invention of barbed wire in 1873 brought out revolution in American agriculture.
• The American President Abraham Lincoln played a key role in the abolition of the
slavery.
• Explorer William Jansz of Dutch reached Australia in 1606.
• A.J. Tasman followed the route of William Jansz and named Tasmania after his
name.
• A.J. Tasman discovered New Zealand.
• Another British explorer, James Cook reached the island of Botany Bay in 1770
and named it New South Wales.
• In Australia, economic prosperity of the mining industry played a crucial role.
• Canberra was declared the capital of Australia in 1911.
• The process of economic development enhanced with rearing of Marino sheep.

Important terms:

• Colonial: Belonging to a country that controls another country.
• Oral History: To write history or to dictate others so that it could have been
recorded.
• Native: Citizens of the colonized countries. ‘The Hopis’ are California’s native
tribes.
• Subsistence Economy: It means to produce as much as required for the fulfillment
of their basic necessities.
• Settler: People who settle at a place of which they are not inhabitants.
• Wampum Belt: A belt made of colored shells.
• Indigenous people: People belonging naturally to a place.
• Multiculturalism: A policy that implies a treatment of equality for the cultures of
native Europeans and Asian emigrants.
• Terra Nullius: A policy that implies recognizing no one’s right over a given piece of
land.

Timeline

1497 John Cabot reaches Newfoundland.

1763 Quebec conquered by the British.