HIST-UA 651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Barter, Roosevelt Corollary, Monroe Doctrine
2 Sep 2016
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Europeans in australia: in 1770, captain james cook claimed australia for britain. At that time, it was too distant to attract european settlers: australia had long been inhabited by indigenous people, later called aborigines. When white settlers arrived, the aborigines suffered disastrously: in 1788, britain made australia into a penal colony, in the early 1800s, britain encouraged free citizens to emigrate to australia. As the newcomers took over more and more land, they thrust aside or killed the. Aborigines: in 1851, a gold rush in eastern australia brought a population boom, by the late 1800s, australia had won a place in a growing world economy. New zealand: new zealand pioneered in several areas of democratic reform, in 1893, it became the first nation to give suffrage to women, later, it was in the forefront of other social reforms. Section 4 economic imperialism in latin america.
