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Crime became massive due to not many people earning money because of the Industrial Revoultion. Which meant jails became full and Britain needed a place for convicts to go.
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The industrial revolution started in 1760 and that's when the world discovered machines and how to work/use them. It was also a time of low wealth due to most of people's jobs taken by machines.
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Captain James Cook was sent to find a place for the convicts by King George The third
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The colonisation of Australia is when Captain Arthur Phillip sailed to Sydney,Australia. There were 11 ships with a mix of convicts and free settlers to build Australia and get rid of all the prisoners in Britain.
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Thomas Edgar led the Second fleet into Botnay Bay, 1790
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The third fleet arrived at Botany Bay, 1791
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Tasmania separated from NSW and became it's own colony.
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The western part of Australia became a colony called the Swan River colony
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The Swan River colony changed its name back to W.A
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The colony of S.A. was established
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The southern part of NSW broke off and became Victoria
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The discovery of gold at Bathurst, people all around the world came to Australia for Gold and made Australia's population much bigger.
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The Eureaka Rebillion is when the digger at the goldfields in Ballarat thought they shouldn't have licenses so they had a battle against the police
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The northern-east part of NSW became Queensland
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The American civil war is when the U.S.A decided that they didn't want to be under Britain and be their own country but Britain disagreed so they had war which lasted 5 years then Britain gave up and the U.S.A one and became their own country. So it made life more difficult for Britain because they couldn't send convicts to America.
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The colonial borders aphid been finalised with 6 different colonies (TAS,NSW,VIC.QLD,WA,SA)
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On 1.1.1901 the Austrlain shapes became one colony and formed the Commonwealth of Australia
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Australia got its flag
