TRANSPORTATION IN THE 18th CENTURY

Alenjandro Martín Garzón y María Gonzalez Sanchez 4ºA

Bilingual proyect2016-2017

Transportation in the

18th-century

1- What is transportation?2- Why so many convicts?3- How was life on the ships?4- Rout.5- Convicts´life in Australia6- Australian colonies.7- New vocabulary.

Index:

Transportation or penal transportation is the sending of convicted criminals or other persons regarded as undesirable to a penal colony.

EXAMPLES:France ( Devil’s Island and New Caledonia).England (Scotland, Ireland, Colonies in the Americas and Australia).

What is transportation?

Plenty of people moved to the cities They became overcrowded

People stole things to survive

Why so many convicts?

There were terrible conditions.

The ships could be up to 65 metres and could be up to 300 convicts

They were over-crowded and cramped.

The convicts died from diseases because they were not fed very well.

How was life on the ships?

Route :

WorkThe work were their

punishment, so they were obligated to work from sunrise to sunset.

Breackfast: A bowl of skilly, a oatmeal porridge and water (Thin slices of meat).

Lunch: A large bread and a pound of dried, salted meat.

Dinner: One bread and a tea cup.

Convicts´life in Australia:Diet

Oatmeal porridge

Tea cup

Bread

Skilly

ClothingUntil 1810, convicts

were permitted to wear ordinary clothes.

To differenciate convicts from settlers

The started to wear uniforms.

Fairly free comunity

with few restrictions on dailylife.

Lodgings were available

Convicts´life in Australia:Housing

England use their colonies in Australia like penal colonies.

Norkfolk island:The most brutal convict´s prison.Who was sent there, could never returned.Some prisioners prefered to suicide instead of been

there all their lives.

Sarah island: It was impossible to escape from.

Australian colonies:

Cramped: It means that the convicts were not have a lot of space and they were very close to each other.

Typhoid: Infection caused by salmonellosis.Skilly: soup of chicken and vegetables.Lodging: place to sleep (hut).Settler: someone who settles in a new place

or area.

NEW VOCABULARY:

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