The Australian Gold Rush Essay

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    Australia, Greeks included between 1925 and 1929. This meant only 100 Greeks were allowed to immigrate each month. Gold rush immigration: The first significant Greek migration to Australia began in the 1850s during the gold rush. The government of Australian migration schemes targeted Greek and Italians in the 1950s and 1960s. More Greek settlers came to Australia came with the gold rushes in the 1850s. WW2 destruction influence on Greeks: After World War II, with

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    South-Eastern Queensland. • There was significant migration during the gold rush in Victoria in the 1850s when approximately 10,000 German migrants came to work the in the gold fields. • Germans were also employed in many other roles including; in copper mines and smelters, silversmithing, winemaking and in weaving woolen cloth. • The World Wars heavily impacted German migration to Australia. • At the beginning of the First World War Australian residents who were citizens of Germany, (as well as those from

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    We are fortunate enough to see and discover what the gold rush was like as a result of Samuel Thomas Gills lifelike drawings. He showed us how the human race acted, and what life was like in Ballarat during the 1850s. Without his images, we wouldn’t have much footage on the stockade and events leading to it and from it. The street lights of Perriton in England lit up with colours on the 21st of May 1818, the day true art came into our world. Samuel Thomas Gill was born. Shortly after this capital

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    Historical Essay Why did Australian men rush to enlist in 1914/1915? During the early war period, there was a rush of Australian men enlisting to defend their mother country. The inherent sense of pride and patriotism that pervades Australian culture today was part of the driving force behind these men’s intentions. The First World War was propagated as an opportunity to seek adventure and see new exotic places, all the while defending their country. Peer pressure played a major role in inspiring

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    after these drifters arrived; the glaciers thawed and brought up the seas once again, which kept the citizenry of Australia permanently in that esteem. The people that inhabited Australia before the English settlers were known as Aborigines or the Australian Aboriginals. Aborigines occupied most of Southeast part of the continent on the shoreline, as well as all parts

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    James Bently a murderer and an honest and very serious, straight-faced person. James Bently was an honest person and was the one who was known for the murder James Scobie. It made him have a bad reputation but it also made him an honest person because he admitted he was the one who did it. James Bently was born in 1818 (there is not an exact date), He was born in surrey, England. On the 10th of March 1853, James Bently married Catherine Sherwin and 1853 they had their first child named Francis all

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    The discovery of gold had lasting effects on Australia.One of the main effects of the gold rushes was on the growing agricultural industry.Many men who worked on the farms,sheep and cattle stations simply downed their tools and left.Workers,owners,roustabouts,stockmen and jackaroos,simply left their jobs for the lure of the gold fields.Often,women and children were left to tend the stations their husbands left behind.As a result,Aboriginal labour became more popular.The gold rushes saw the rise

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    What effect if any, did the gold rush have on the social, political and cultural development of Australia as a nation? The gold rush of the 1850’s had a major and lasting impact on Australia and changed it forever. Before gold was discovered Australia was a lawless prison colony. Less than fifty years after gold was discovered, Australia had been transformed into an independent country. The gold rush helped increase the population, which helped bring social, cultural development and democratic

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    European only colonized the western half of the island, Australian miners explored the east side of the New Guinea island, which named Papua New Guinea. In 1926, hundreds of Australian came to Papua New Guinea, “the Promised Land,” to search for gold. It was similar to the Gold Rush in the United States. The absence of law led to the system of “staking claims.” (Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, 2012) Australian miners claimed the ownership of gold and gained the wealth while taking advantage of native

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    VU21481 Research events in Australian history, post 1770 Student Name : Fong Hock Chuan Student ID : GEC000003H TASK 1 1. Tahiti , New Zealand , The Great Southern Land (Australia) 2. The sea was dangerous , the winds did not always blow in the right direction and it was such a long way and difficult to bring enough food and water. 3. People could make a lot of money from trade and from gathering natural resources.England was very interest in setting up a naval base and supply post in the Southern

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