Australian History

By maya.riley@education.nsw.gov.au

  • Enclosure acts began

    Enclosure acts began in Britain

  • machinery was invented

    Industrial Revoloution began

  • Convicts stopped being sent over seas

    they stopped going to America

  • NSW was suitable

    NSW was suitable as a penal colony

  • Captain Arther

    got chosen for the first fleet

  • 13th of May

    The First Fleet

  • Arther Phillip was governer

    governer of the colony

  • more fleets arrived

    2 more

  • huge growth in population

    poverty and crime

  • Governer Lachlan Maquaie arrived

    buildings and roads began

  • the railroad

    The railroad opened between Melbourne and Sydney.

  • woman can vote

    woman got the right to vote through the Franchise Act

  • Australian colonies

    they divided into six