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Conclusion and reflection:
What does the crossing of the Blue Mountains tell us about Australian history?
You have now studied an event in great detail.
It is time to make some judgements and assessments about the nature and significance of this event in
Australian history.
The Australian Curriculum: History asks you to consider the following areas. Compose your response to each,
based on your knowledge, understanding and empathetic awareness (what it might have been like at the time)
of the people and the event.
1 What does the Crossing of the Blue Mountains tell us about:
The Impact of the
Industrial Revolution
on Australia
Convict life
Impacts of
settlement on
Indigenous people
The movement
of people
The nature of the
free settlers
Economic activity
in New South Wales
Land use in New
South Wales
What it was like
(empathy)
Causation
Consequences of
settlement
Different views of
the future of New
South Wales
2 Write a brief paragraph or do a comic strip sketch for your own history textbook
(in box 10 of activity page 3C) to summarise for readers what you think the
crossing of the Blue Mountains tells us about this part of our past.
Myths and Mysteries of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains
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