The Gold Rushes

3. Until gold was discovered, Australia was a ___________ settlement for British convicts.
7. The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee was formed and offered a ______________ to anyone that could find gold close to Melbourne.
8. Australia's new wealth due to the discovery of gold had many benefits but this new wealth attracted outlaws called _________________.
10. When gold was found near Bendigo , Melbourne became a _______town.
12. The nationality of immigrants who were skilful miners who were resented by a number of early diggers.
13. The first two people to find gold in Bendigo, Victoria were which gender? (male or female)
15. Because of the explosion in Australia's population due to the discovery of gold ____________ workers were no longer needed.
16. Miners had to obtain a ________________ from the authorities before they could mine for gold.

1. Early miners were known as _______________.
2. Gold was first discovered by some convicts near ______________ in NSW in 1815.
4. Edward ______________ a gold prospector announced in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that he'd found gold at Bathurst in 1851.
5. The authorities in charge of NSW and Victoria kept the news of the gold finds quiet because they feared this news could cause a convict _______________,
6. A word meaning three times (paragraph 3).
9. A synonym for the word vital in paragraph 1.
11. When gold was first found because of the "Gold Rush" businesses had to increase their employees ____________ in order to keep them (Paragraph 4)
14. A famous rebellion by miners was the ______________ Stockade.