New Zealand Wars True or False (Grade 6)
Free printable true or false worksheet for Grade 6 on the New Zealand Wars, with age-appropriate factual statements checked against NZ History and Te Ara.
Grade 6 · History worksheet
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The New Zealand Wars: True or False
Read each statement about the New Zealand Wars and circle True or False.
- 1.True or False: The New Zealand Wars were fought in the 1500s.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: The wars were fought over land and over who held authority.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: Large areas of Māori land were confiscated, most of all in Waikato and Taranaki.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: The Māori King movement, the Kīngitanga, opposed the selling of Māori land.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.True or False: Hōne Heke built the flagstaff at Kororāreka as a gift for the governor.
- a) True
- b) False
- 6.True or False: The Waikato was never involved in the New Zealand Wars.
- a) True
- b) False
- 7.True or False: Raupatu is the Māori word for a peace celebration.
- a) True
- b) False
- 8.True or False: The confiscations left a lasting grievance, and many claims have since gone to the Waitangi Tribunal.
- a) True
- b) False
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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