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⚖️ Aotearoa New Zealand Histories, Years 7 to 10

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. In which year did New Zealand become the first self governing country in the world where women could vote in parliamentary elections?

1893190119181945

2. What is raupatu?

A ceremonial cloakA type of traditional carvingThe confiscation of Māori land by the governmentA style of haka

3. Who was crowned as the first Māori King in 1858?

Pōtatau Te WherowheroWiremu TāmihanaTe Whiti o RongomaiHone Heke

4. Roughly how much higher was the Māori death rate than the non Māori death rate during the 1918 influenza pandemic?

About half as highAbout seven times higherAbout the sameAbout twenty times lower

5. What were the two written languages of the Treaty of Waitangi?

Dutch and MāoriMāori and LatinEnglish and FrenchEnglish and Māori

6. What did Ngāti Whātua eventually gain after the Bastion Point occupation ended?

Ownership of all of AucklandA seat in Parliament reserved for the hapūNothing, the land issue was dropped foreverCompensation and legal recognition of their Treaty rights, following a Waitangi Tribunal claim

7. In 1985, how was the Waitangi Tribunal's power changed?

Its findings were made legally binding for the first timeIt was allowed to investigate Treaty breaches all the way back to 1840It was given power over general electionsIt was shut down completely

8. What happened to Parihaka's leaders, Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, after the 1881 invasion?

They were arrested and imprisoned without trialThey were made government ministersThey were paid compensation immediatelyNothing happened to them at all

9. What was one relief measure the first Labour government introduced immediately on taking power in 1935?

Compulsory military service for all adultsA total ban on all importsA Christmas bonus for the unemployed and paid annual holidays for relief workersThe abolition of Parliament

10. What long term outcome did the Waitangi Tribunal's 1985 change in powers eventually lead to?

The transfer of all Crown land to private companiesA large and ongoing programme of Treaty settlements between iwi and the CrownThe complete abolition of Māori land ownershipAn immediate end to all Treaty claims within a year

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