Question 1

Where did Britain have its original penal colony before Australia?

Accepted Answer

Georgia, which was lost during the American Revolution

Question 2

What made slavery in the US unique to other countries?

Accepted Answer

The number of enslaved people increased after slavery was abolished

Question 3

What did convicts do in penal colonies?

Accepted Answer

Performed labor for free settlers, and often not allowed to return

(usually not directly imprisoned)

Question 4

Why did Britain stop sending convicts to Australia?

Accepted Answer

Australia started to get pretty nice, so it wasn't much of a punishment

Gold made Australia successful

Question 5

What was Devil's Island?

Accepted Answer

A French penal colony notorious for its harsh treatment of convicts

Question 6

What is a diaspora?

Accepted Answer

Mass emigrations from a country or region, that take place over many years

(The African Diaspora was the movement of Africans out of Africa, primarily as a result of slavery)

Question 7

What is Australasia?

Accepted Answer

Australia, New Zealand, and a couple of surrounding islands

Question 8

Why did many Chinese leave China in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Poverty and disorder brought by the Taiping Rebellion

The First Opium War made it easier to leave

Left China to find new opportunities in the US and Australasia

Question 9

What was the Great Famine?

Accepted Answer

A period of mass starvation in Ireland, as a result of a disease that affected potato crops

(potatoes were the primary source of food for the Irish, so the disease that destroyed them for four years killed as many millions of people)

Question 10

How did the Great Famine affect demographics?

Accepted Answer

Millions of Irish people emigrated from Ireland, primarily to the US

Question 11

What is the Colonial Service?

Accepted Answer

The British government service that administered many of Britain's overseas colonies

Many people migrated to colonies to work as government officials in the Colonial Service

Question 12

How did British engineers spread Western science and technology?

Accepted Answer

So many British engineers left for colonies that Western science and technology spread through the world

Their knowledge was blended with native knowledge as well

Question 13

How did Japan attempt to become an overseas empire?

Accepted Answer

Made a bunch of colonies, including ones in Mexico and Peru

Many Japanese also went to the US

(enacted under the Japanese Colonial Empire / the Colonization Society)

6.6 - Causes of Migration, AP World History: Modern Flashcards