Australia's First Settlement Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet landed at Port Jackson in the new colony of New South Wales on 26 January 1788. They were the first people to colonise Australia. Until the American War of Independence, Britain had sent all ... Arthur Phillip arrived at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788, he decided that the site was not suitable for settlement and resolved to look for another. He decided that Port Jackson, the site of modern day Sydney was the best place for settlement. He and the people of the First Fleet established Australia's first settlement on 26 Janu...

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... of Victoria's life, although it had limited information on her death and it's impacts. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/teach/resources/austudies/tcaf.html, The Crown and Federation, Helen Irving, February 1999. This site has excellent and relevant information on Queen Victoria and her part in federation and Australian society. Microsoft Encarta, Reference Library 2002. 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation ... ...

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... your friends and family, read Tea with Friends: A Victorian Tradition. The Victorian era is celebrated for prolific works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed by Dante Rosetti and William Holman Hunt. Learn about this avant-garde movement inspired by the earlier Italian Renaissance painters and symbolic works of William Shakespeare, in our page on The Arts of the Victorian period. ...

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... used these resources to create wig wams or small houses made out of saplings. Surrounding their houses were small farms, the women were the farmers because the men needed to hunt. Their farms were small but very necessary, one way that made farming in the soil easier was called the 3 sisters. The 3 sisters are corn, squash, and beans; the beans would ... ...

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... used his satiric talents to make fun of the owners of the slaves because he wanted to abolish slavery. " Reading last night in your excellent paper the speech of Mr. Jackson in Congress against their meddling with the Affair of Slavery, or attempting to mend the condition of the slaves, it put me in mind of a similar One made about 100 ... ...

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... colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy, but also with Boston merchants hiring James Otis inorder to protest the legality of the writs of assistance (general search warrants) used to hunt out smuggled goods. "let the parliament lay what burthens they please on us, we must, it is our duty to submit and patiently bear them, till they will be pleased ... ...

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