AC9HH9K01 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the causes and effects of European imperial expansion and the movement of peoples in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the different responses to colonisation and migration

Elaborations

• 1 identifying and describing the causes of the movement of peoples in the modern world, including the push factors (for example, the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Irish Potato Famine, discrimination and persecution, forced migration such as slavery and convict settlements) and pull factors (for example, the promise of a better life, employment opportunities, space and personal freedom)
• 2 identifying and describing the effects of the movements of peoples on colonised peoples, such as dispossession, disease, and destruction of traditional society and culture
• 3 examining data on the movement of peoples in the period, such as the number of slaves transported and the nations/places involved, including Portugal, Britain, France, Spain, North America, or the number of people forced to migrate from Ireland due to the potato famine, and the nations/places they emigrated to, such as the United States, Canada and Australia

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