What weakness of the separate colonies helped push people towards forming one nation?
- They shared a single colonial parliament
- They had no farming land left
- They had weak systems of defence ✓
- They had no written laws of any kind
Why this is the answer
On their own the colonies could not defend themselves well, which was one reason to unite.
This question is from: Federation
More questions from this topic
- Before 1901, each colony made its own laws about which of these matters?
- Before 1901, how many separate self-governing British colonies made up Australia?
- How is the job of uniting the colonies into one nation described?
- On what date were the Australian colonies united into a federation?
- What showed that an Australian national identity was beginning to form before 1901?
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