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Gold Rush in Australia
Gold Rush in Australia
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Do you know your basic facts about the Gold Rush in Australia in the 1850's?
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The Eureka Stockade was mostly because....
Horses were too slow
Farmers wanted more milk
Gold licences were too expensive
not enough gold was found
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What is the name of the leader of the stockade?
Peter Lalor
Larry Waters
Peter Smith
Mike Bryers
3
What was the name of the hill in Ballarat, where the Eureka Stockade took place?
Bakery Hill
Brewery Mountain
Milkbar Cafe
Bald Hill
4
What is
Lawrence Hargrave
famous for? (I always get Edward Hargraves and Lawrence Hargrave mixed up.)
Produced the world's first feature length film, "The Kelly Gang."
First Australian to fly, using box kites.
First Australian to play Australian rules football.
First Australian to claim he found gold in Ophir near Orange.
5
At Bakery Hill, what did the miners burn in protest?
Houses
police hats
licences to drive
licences to mine
6
What is suffrage?
Getting a nail in your foot
The right to buy land
The right to vote
The right to pan for gold
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In what year was the Eureka Stockade?
1854
1853
1852
1851
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Where did Edward Hargraves claim to have discovered gold in NSW near Orange in 1851?
Tilba Tilba
Sofala
Ophir
Hill End
9
600,000 people lived in Australia in 1850. By 1871 that figure has boomed to
1.7 million
1 million
800,000
20 million
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Although discovered years earlier, in what year was gold "officially" discovered in Australia?
1850
1750
1952
1851
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How many stars were on the flag that the rebellion used?
3
5
4
2
