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America rebels
when the British taxed the Americans with unreasonable prices, american's became aware of the high taxes and rebelled kicking out the british and becoming a free nation rather than a colony. -
jails started filling
jails begin to drastically fill in Britain with criminals of varying ages like kids and adults due to petty crime stimulated by country-wide poverty. -
poverty and crime in Britain
The population in England was rising as the industrial revolution arose and multiple factories an jobs became became available attracting many citizens and people from European countries. Unfortunately, too many people had arrived and Britain was unable to support the people resulting in mass poverty and crime. As america was no longer an option, the prisons filled and the British needed a new penal colony -
captain cook claims australia
captain cook turned the east coast of Australia(new south wales )into a penal colony to keep convicts and replace America's penal colony -
first fleet sets sail to fully discover Australia
the first fleet consisted of six ships carrying hundreds of convicts, two navy ships and 3 resource ships. These all set sail for Australia. -
First fleet arrives at Australia
