Eureka Stockade

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Across
  1. 4. Something the miners wanted more of.
  2. 6. The payment miners were required to make to search for gold.
  3. 10. The Australian colony where the Eureka Stockade took place.
  4. 13. The capital city of Victoria, where many political decisions affecting the goldfields were made.
  5. 16. A fort made from wooden posts where the miners gathered.
  6. 17. The valuable metal that attracted thousands of people to Victoria.
Down
  1. 1. A permit miners had to buy to search for gold.
  2. 2. Peter _______ became a leader of the miners.
  3. 3. An action taken to show disagreement with something considered unfair.
  4. 5. The people who searched for gold on the goldfields.
  5. 7. The miners raised the Southern Cross_______ at Eureka.
  6. 8. The miners wanted the right to have a greater say in government through this.
  7. 9. The Victorian goldfield where the Eureka Stockade occurred.
  8. 11. The authorities who enforced the mining licences.
  9. 12. An organised attempt to resist authority.
  10. 14. The name of the goldfield where the famous rebellion took place.
  11. 15. Soldiers sent to attack the Eureka Stockade.