Impact of English Colonization on Australia: Language

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Impact of English Colonization on
AustraliaLanguage Religion

• Unit 10 Notes

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Language of Australia

• Direct result of British colonization expansion
• Australia was the final continent discovered by
  Europeans
• Aborigines had inhabited the country for
  centuries

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Language

• 1768 Captain James Cook left England and
  explored mapped parts of eastern Australia
• Claimed the land for England named it New South
  Wales
• England did not immediately colonize it

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Language

• 1788 England sent a crew to Australia to begin
  building prisons
• Earlier, England had been shipping prisoners to
  American colonies--no longer a choice after the
  American Revolution
• 1788-1823 New South Wales was a penal (prison)
  colony housing convicts and marines

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Language

• 1823 British government established Australias
  first Parliament that created criminal and civil
  courts
• By 1868 more than 170,000 convicts had arrived
  in Australia from England
• The language of the prisoners was English

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Language

• French government became interested in
  Australias west coast
• To keep French out, English settlers built new
  villages and cities as far out as possible
• This spread English language to western Australia

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Language

• More British immigrants entered Australia during
  the gold rush of the mid-1800s
• Thousands of Chinese immigrants arrived as well
• Chinese didnt become an important language
  because the English-speakers were too plentiful

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Language

• When Australia gained its independence from Great
  Britain, the government wanted to make sure it
  wouldnt get too many immigrants
• It allowed people from England US to enter the
  country, but made rules to stop immigrants from
  Africa Asia
• Encouraged more English speakers to move to
  Australia

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Language

• Today, more than 20 of Australians were born in
  another country
• Half of Australia came from non-English speaking
  countries
• Because of Australias history, English is still
  the official language its the most common
  language spoken

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Religion

• 1788 Europeans introduced Christianity to
  Australia
• Irish convicts were Catholic, while most others
  were Methodist or Anglican
• 1800s European settlers brought their
  traditional churches to Australia--Church of
  England (now Anglican Church), Methodist,
  Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregationalist,
  Baptist

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Religion

• Today, most Australians are Christians
• Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church
  claim the most members
• Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus combined make
  up less than 5 of the population