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    1. The Gold Rush
    2. Gold Rush: earlier discoveries
      • Convicts found gold and were ‘flogged’
      • Authorities were worried about a ‘rush’
      • ‘ We’ll have our throats cut!’
    3. Gold ‘Rush’
    4. Gold Rush: around the world
      • Other ‘rushes’:
      • California ‘rush’ 1848-49
      • 1851 Victorian gold rush began
      • biggest of several Australian gold rushes
      • many miners from Victoria later travelled to join a gold rush in NZ
      • this ‘rush’ kick-started New Zealand's economy
    5. Gold Rush: Victoria
      • The Victorian gold rush
      • was highly significant for the development of Victoria and Melbourne
      • This included
          • political development
          • economic development
    6. Gold Rush: Bendigo buildings
    7. Gold Rush: Ballarat buildings
    8. Gold Rush: impact
      • With the Australian gold rushes came
      • construction
          • first railways
          • first telegraph lines
      • migrants other places and cultures (beginning of multicultural Australia)
      • outbreaks of racism
      • the Eureka Stockade and changes to the system for election of parliamentarians in Victoria (and later Australia) – vote for all adult males
      • the end of transportation of convicts
    9. Gold Rush: transport
      • Many city people left for ‘the diggings’
      • Establishment of rich country towns
      • Development of transport
    10. Gold Rush: Chinese Miners
      • Organised into groups, worked hard
      • Worked on mines others had left
      • Saved money, started businesses
    11. Gold Rush: Many Cultures
      • The people who ‘rushed’ to the goldfields
      • Came from all over Australia
      • Came from all over the world, inclding
          • Chinese
          • Irish
          • Russiona
    12. Gold Rush Chinese migrants
      • 2,000 buried at Beechworth Cemetery (in Victoria)
    13. Gold Rush Chinese migrants
      • largest non-British group of migrants during this period
      • in 1852 there was 400 Chinese immigrants
      • in 1855 more than 4,000
    14. Gold Rush: Victoria
      • The Victorian gold rush
      • began just when Victoria became independent
      • thousands of miners arrived quickly
          • only 50 police and soldiers in colony
          • hard to find police – criminals and misfits
      • Victorian government needed money
      • Victorian government controlled by rich farmers
          • introduced system of licences for gold diggers
    15. Victorian Gold Rush: Licences
      • Mining Licences
      • expensive
      • not everyone found gold
      • police harassment
      • series of events led to unrest
    16. Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
      • The Stockade
      • People from around the world
      • Agreed to stand together
      • http://www.eurekaballarat.com
      Birth of the Eureka Flag
    17. Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
    18. Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854 (Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
    19. Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade
      • many killed or arrested
      • leaders found ‘not guilty’ by jury
      EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854 (Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
    20. Gold Rush: Eureka Stockade EUREKA DECEMBER 3, 1854 (Oil on Canvas) Artist: George Browning A.M. (1918-2000)
    21. Eureka Stockade: outcomes
      • Change in the Victorian law about who could vote
      • Leader Peter Lalor voted into Victorian parliament
      • parliament awarded a pension of 4,000 pounds when he retired in 1887
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