How Did The Gold Rush Shape Australian History

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 government.

The gold rush was located along the Klondike river thats why people have many names for the gold rush because there were many places where it took place and the Klondike river was one of those places where hundreds or thousands of people went to find gold. Like I said before the Gold rush was called lots of things people even call it the disappointment of the generation or like the luckiest thing on earth but they usually call the gold rush the Klondike gold rush. There are many many people who go up there and search for gold in the book I was reading they said there are up to one hundred thousand people plus up there looking for gold and about 3/4 came out lucky and the other ¼ either came out with nothing or even died trying to get gold

Gold was discovered by a man by the name of James W. Marshall on January 1,1848 in California. While James was in the construction site he saw a shiny object on the ground and found that the shiny object is gold. When the news spread that there was gold, it was the begin of the gold rush of 1849.Hundreds and hundreds of mining camp appeared as new deposits of gold were being

60% of the chinese went to of victoria in 1854 to the ballarat goldfields. The chinese were the first multicultural colony not to speak english which was a wonderful thing because

1890 to 1914 – Canada had a rapid growth of mining and manufacturing. In Aug of 1896, the was the “Klondike Gold Rush,” a large mining of gold. The gold rush was hot news that spread quickly and produced a pull factor, drawing the attention of many immigrants and explorers.

The gold rush was a big event that took place in July of 1897. It wasn’t a simple event, there was many hardships faced by the miners. The article “Klondike Gold Rush” (Public Domain), A Woman Who Went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan and the video City of Gold by Pierre Berton, they all talk about the Gold Rush and how the people that were part of this were influenced. Even though each is talking about the gold rush, they all have different information, different tones, and different points of view.

[Gold] since the days of the Egyptian Pharaoh's some 5,000 years ago to the Roman Empire and the Mayan and Aztec civilisations of South America gold has been the lure of mankind representing power and prestige. The importance of Gold and its lustre for men was its rarity and even up to today with all the gold mined throughout history, it would only fill two Olympic-size swimming pools. Furthermore, up until the 1930's gold had been the measure of a countries currency strength. Consequently, for the colony of NSW, the gold discoveries would drive the economy and turn stockmen into overnight millionaires. The getting of gold though was labour intensive and at first was panned in the rivers and creeks followed by reef gold where deep shafts were hollowed out and men would drop 100 to 300 ft to get to the precious

Gold Rush is one of the significant event in the history. In this project, I will introduce what is the major effects of the Gold Rush in the California. And how did that change the people, economic, political and environmental effects. The Gold Rush is a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered Goldfield. Gold rush was arguably one of the most significant events to build American history during the first half of the 19th century. Thousands of gold miners traveled by the sea and over the land of San Francisco and the surrounding area. In January 1848, James Wilson Marshall discovered gold along the American River. By the time, the fountain of

Humans are thought to have arrived in Australia around sixty five thousand years ago. The original inhabitants, who have descendants to this day, are known as aborigines. These aborigines settled for primarily a well-watered costal area. But they aren’t the only population who wanted this land. The period of European discovery and settlement began on August 23rd, 1770, when James Cook took position of the eastern coast of Australia reported the fertile lands back to Britain. But Britain used the land based off of a strategic move in the late 18th century and the early 19th centuries once European wars broke out. A historical rivalry resumed during the American War of Independence, and both nations were seriously weakened by their involvement.

They searched for gold along the river and creek beds without any destination with their pans, axes, and shovels. The miners used a method called “placer” mining. They used their pans to collect the gold that washed down from the hillsides and settled in the bottom of the rivers. Other miners would use flatboats to shift the current to find better locations with more gold deposits. Many of them were very successful and collected numerous amount of gold dust with their pans. After a while it was more difficult to find gold that had washed down from the mountains and the hills into the streams. The towns along grew and more money was available for miners to find new ways to mine for

The Discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought some 30,000 pioneers along the oregon trail. By 1850, the peak year of travel along the trail, the annual count had risen to 55,000

The California Gold rush of 1849 start the first big boom for the west. It extract so many people of different backgrounds to come and tried to find gold. Soon after there were other places in the west were gold and silver was found. This led to the start of the mining business which boom from the 1860s to 1890s. Gold and Silver were found areas such as Denver, Nevada, And the Dakota area. When people heard about these finding thousands upon thousands flock to the towns turning regular mining camps into cities. Many of these miners were irresponsible with their money and didn’t think long term. They would just spend their money on beers and prostitutes. The smart miners would save their money to buy better equipment and place to live to keep thriving in the industry. They would eventually start buying up mines and become rich from the business to were they longer had to mine. Once mine was flat out and no more resource was available the town died off. People who didn’t save their money were left broke and working under terrible conditions. Working the mining industry was very danger and remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United

In the 1850s, some Polish-born migrated to join the Australian gold rush, along with the boom of migrants that arrived from other European countries.

According to the article, "Another gold rush" the gold mining become more common. Since, mining is hard work and dangerous, young people are not interested in doing mining. Also miners said the mining equipment is expensive for them and most of them didn’t get wealth by doing mining. The article also said the gold prices keep rising.

Gold in California was incidental discovered near an American stream that would change the young creating state. All finished America, youthful colleagues settled on the decision to go to California. People started from Europe, Asia, and South America searching for minute wealth. The new American dream was to get rich, and to make a fortune quickly. (Mill operator 151)