Show:
Life on the Goldfields
The discovery of gold
The Eureka Stockade
Immigration
A Difficult Journey
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What did the diggers live in?

Most diggers lived in tents

100

When was gold discovered in Australia? 

1851

100

What was the Eureka Stockade? 

A Rebellion 

100
The population in Australia grew increasingly due to ...
the gold rush.
100
How did migrants come to Australia for the gold rush?
Ship.
200

How big were the mining claims? (By feet) 

8 by 8 Feet or 12 by 12 Feet 

200

What was the name of the person who first discovered gold?

Edward Hargraves

200

What date did the Eureka Stockade Occur? 

November 1854

200

Which foreign group of miners was not welcomed by the European miners?

The Chinese

200
Storms at sea caused severe seasickness among the passengers and _________ on the long voyage.
Death
300
What meals did they have to eat?
Damper, mutton and tea.
300

Gold was discovered in Australia previously but it was kept quiet by the government. Why?

They did not want the convicts and settlers to leave their colonies to mine. 

300

How many miners/diggers were killed in the Eureka Stockade? 

30 miners 

300

How much tax money did this group have to pay to be allowed into the country? 

10 pounds

300

What problems did they face if they traveled by ship?

It was overcrowded. There was no fresh food. 

400

What tools were most commonly used to mine for Gold? 

Wide tin pan, shovels and pick-axes

400

How much did the miners have to pay for a gold licence. 

30 shillings

400

What was the main reason behind the Eureka Stockade Rebellion? 

The miners were angry with the way the colonial government was administering the goldfields or they were unhappy about the high fees for mining licences

400

What did the Chinese people face when they arrived in Australia for the gold rush? 

Discrimination, racism and unfair treatment



400

So many people arrived in Australia to stay for their search of gold, that there was __________________________?

nowhere for them to stay/ overcrowding 

500
What is the name of the disease that spread most rapidly in the gold fields? 

Typhoid

500

What happened to diggers who did not have a gold licence and were caught mining? 

If diggers were unable to produce their licence, police would drag the miners to prison or chained them to trees.

500

What was the name of the leader of the protest? 

Peter Lalor

500

Describe the mining technique used by the Chinese that angered the European miners.

They would go back over to abandoned mining claims and rework them and were often successful in finding quantities of Gold

500

How long (in months) did it take on the ship to reach Australia from Europe?

5 months