Edward Hargraves

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Where did William Branwhite Clarke find gold?

• Victorian Alps

• Hartley in the Blue Mountains

• Strathloddon Victoria

• Castambul, South Australia

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Who did Clarke show his find to?

• Paul de Strezelicki

• William Campbell

• Sir George Gipps

• Farmers in the area

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When did Clarke find gold?

• 1841

• 1842

• 1843

• 1844

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Where did Paul de Strezlecki discover gold?

• the Victorian Alps

• Hartley in the Blue Mountains

• Glemona Station Victoria

• Strathloddon Victoria

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When did explorer Paul de Strezlecki discover gold?

• 1840

• 1844

• 1839

• 1846

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Where did William Campbell find gold?

• Castambul, South Australia

• Glenmona Station Victoria

• Hently Blue Mountains

• Strathloddon Victoria

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When did William Campbell find gold in Victoria?

• 1840

• 1846

• 1849

• 1844

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When was gold discovered near Castambul, South Australia?

• 1840

• 1841

• 1846

• 1849

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When was gold found at Glemnona Station in Victoria?

• 1839

• 1840

• 1846

• 1849

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Why were people scared of a gold rush?

• they feared everyone would leave their jobs

• they feared that people would come and take the gold away from Australia

• they feared that gold would send people mad

• they feared bushrangers

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What did Australia need in the 1840s?

• gold

• people to work and build new colonies

• a good railway system

• more building materials

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What did farmers want to protect?

• their fences from being broken

• their land from being taken

• their sheep from being stolen

• their houses from being broken into

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When did the Californian Gold Rush start?

• 1847

• 1848

• 1849

• 1850

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What did many Australians do when the Calfornian gold rush began?

• stayed in Australia to work

• started to search for gold in Australia

• left Australia for America to find gold

• went back to England

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Why did development slow in Australia?

• because people were not working hard

• because Australia had lost a lot of its workers

• there was a massive flood

• there was a terrible drought

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What did Edward Hargraves lean how to do in California?

• how to farm

• how to shell pearls

• how to mine

• how to swim

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What did Hargraves notice when he was in California?

• the gold mining land in California looked similar to inland NSW

• the gold mining land in California was unlike anything he had seen

• the gold mining land in California was like the Queensland coast

• the gold mining land in California was not similar to inland NSW

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What did Governor Charles FitzRoy convince the British government to do?

• to map out an area where gold might be found

• to stop people from moving from Australia

• to offer a reward to anyone who found gold

• to keep gold finds a secret

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Where did Hargraves find five specks of alluvial gold?

• Summer Creek

• Autumn Lake

• Winter Stream

• Spring River

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Who did Hargraves train to mine gold?

• William Lister and James Tom

• John Lister, William and James Tom

• Tom Lister, Willam and James John

• John, William and James Lister

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What piece of mining equipment did they use?

• metal detector

• ladle

• cradle

• puddling bucket

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What did Hargraves call the place he found gold?

• Opal

• Orange

• Open

• Ophir

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Who confirmed Mr Hargraves ' find?

• the government biologist

• the government geologist

• the government treasurer

• the Governor

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What did Mr Hargraves refuse to do?

• show where he found the gold

• take the reward

• talk to the geologist

• share the reward with the others

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Where was the news of the gold find published?

• on posters

• on the television

• in the newspaper

• on the radio