New Zealand Wars Worksheet (Grade 5)
Free printable New Zealand Wars worksheet for Grade 5. Students answer factual questions about the wars of 1845-1872, fought over land and authority, and the raupatu confiscations that followed.
Grade 5 · History worksheet
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The New Zealand Wars
Read each question about the New Zealand Wars of 1845 to 1872 and write your answer on the line.
- 1.Which 1864 battle came at the end of the Waikato war?
- 2.Which movement, centred in the Waikato, opposed the selling of Māori land?
- 3.What two things was the fighting really about?
- 4.In which region did fighting begin in 1860, over a disputed land purchase?
- 5.What did Hōne Heke and his allies cut down four times at Kororāreka?
- 6.What does raupatu mean?
- 7.Which region did government forces invade in July 1863?
- 8.Which two regions lost the most land to confiscation?
- 9.Under which 1863 law was Māori land confiscated?
- 10.Between which years were the New Zealand Wars mainly fought?
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- Te Ara: New Zealand Wars — frames the wars of 1845-1872 as conflict over sovereignty and land between government forces and some iwi
- NZ History: The Northern War — documents Hōne Heke's repeated felling of the Kororāreka flagstaff and the outbreak of war in 1845
- NZ History: Land confiscation law passed — covers the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863, the raupatu confiscations that fell hardest on Waikato and Taranaki including land of neutral iwi, and their legacy of grievance