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Traces of gold in the 1840s started the Gold Rush in which US state?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Reorganisation Act, letting natives in reservations buy land, was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Canada's Constitution Act accepting aboriginal and treaty rights came in:Read the answer and worked solution →Australia's aborigines arrived over 40,000 years ago from:Read the answer and worked solution →James Cook reached Botany Bay in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Federation of Australia with six states was formed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Canberra comes from kamberra, a native word meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the native peoplesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the North American wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the settler datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Australian placesRead the answer and worked solution →America or AustraliaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the countriesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settler colonies bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre under General Dyer took place on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session at Nagpur in:Read the answer and worked solution →In Madras, which party contested the council elections that others boycotted during Non-Cooperation?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1921 and 1922 the import of foreign cloth fell from Rs 102 crore to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Awadh peasant movement was led by which sanyasi who had been an indentured labourer in Fiji?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 against enhanced land revenue was led by:Read the answer and worked solution →Alluri Sitaram Raju led a guerrilla movement in the Gudem Hills of:Read the answer and worked solution →Under which Act of 1859 could Assam plantation workers not leave the tea gardens without permission?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 after violence at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Simon Commission arrived in India in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Traces of gold in the 1840s started the Gold Rush in which US state?

  1. Alaska state
  2. California
  3. Nevada state
  4. Georgia state
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Correct answer: B. California

1. Thousands of Europeans hurried to America. 2. The gold was in California. 3. Railways followed, built by Chinese workers. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 10, Displacing Indigenous Peoples._

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The Indian Reorganisation Act, letting natives in reservations buy land, was passed in:

  1. 1954
  2. 1982
  3. 1934
  4. 1928
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Correct answer: C. 1934

1. The Meriam survey of 1928 showed grim conditions. 2. The Act came in 1934. 3. It also allowed natives to take loans. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 10, Displacing Indigenous Peoples._

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Canada's Constitution Act accepting aboriginal and treaty rights came in:

  1. 1969
  2. 1867
  3. 1934
  4. 1982
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Correct answer: D. 1982

1. In 1969 the government refused aboriginal rights. 2. The Constitution Act of 1982 accepted them. 3. Many details remain to be worked out. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 10, Displacing Indigenous Peoples._

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