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    How the Australian Gold rush changed Australia The gold rushes in the second half of the 19th century would completely change the way Australia would look at its self and how other nations and people would look at it. Before 1851‚ Australia’s combined recorded white population was approximately 77‚000. Most of these where convicts‚ slaved and war captives who had been inhabiting Australia for the past 70 years. But the gold rush completely changed the small country Australia the convicts where

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    The Unfulfilled Dream at Klondike Klondike Gold Rush‚ which is also known as Yukon Gold Rush‚ was one of the world’s most influential impacts of the discovery of gold. The rush started by the accidental discovery of a gold placer in Rabbit Creek‚ Yukon‚ by a man named Skookum Jim Mason and his brother in law‚ George Carmack‚ in 1896 (Klondike Gold Rush). The news of the gold finding spread through the Yukon River valley and eventually reached the United States in 1897. At that time‚ the United

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    Klondike Gold Rush On August 16‚ gold was located in Klondike‚ Yukon. Which person discovered it remains a mystery. However‚ it was found by the group George Carmack‚ his wife Kate Carmack along with her brother Jim Skookum‚ and their nephew Dawson Charlie while they were traveling south of the Klondike River. On August 17‚ they staked their claimed on Bonanza Creek/Rabbit

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    economic and social of Australia had totally develop cause of the gold rushes. Before 1851‚ White population arrival was approximately 77‚000. Over the 70 year‚ most of white population had been convicts sent by ship. By 2 year that seek by Edward Hargrave’s to explore the gold rushes at Bathurst‚ Australia’s population rise to over 540‚000 and 370‚000 immigrants take place in Australia’s port during the year 1852. Before the gold rushes found in Bathurst‚ Victoria had been built as an individual

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    California Gold Rush Success in the United States is largely defined by material wealth. Americans choose paths that will help their families to lead comfortable‚ happy lives. Sometimes this means following crazy opportunities to a new part of the country‚ which can be both exciting and risky at the same time. This was seen during the California Gold Rush of the 1840’s. The Gold Rush was a significant event in our nation’s history for many reasons‚ including its impact on Westward Expansion and

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    Many Chinese workers made their way to the United States around 1848 during the California Gold Rush. By 1880‚ there was approximately seventy-five thousand newcomers in the Golden State which was nine percent of the state’s total population. These numbers increased because of mining and the hiring of large labor forces to conduct work on the Transcontinental Railroad across the West. Employers viewed the Chinese as “cheap labor”‚ and for this reason‚ Americans welcomed them (Kennedy and Cohen 500)

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    India’s Gold Rush (Possible Solutions) Over the past year there has been a significant fall in household savings as a percent-age of GDP from 25.4% in 2009-10 to 22.8% of GDP in 2010-11. This fall in house-hold savings has occurred when the interest rate cycle is at its peak. Conventionally the only way to boost household savings has been to increase interest rates; how-ever that would risk slowing down an already sluggish economy. The reason for this anomaly in the economy is the huge surge

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    In the pursuit of gold much damage was done to California’s ecosystem. Traditional mining practices‚ such as placer mining and rocker/ cradle mining by individuals and small groups of miners in California did damage the environment in small ways‚ but the real damage began to occur when big groups and conglomerates started diverting rivers to dig the stream bed and using Hydraulic mining equipment. These larger operations with more capital were able to use more mechanized and expensive equipment

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    “I came to Australia in the Gold Rush” Ever wondered what life was like for Chinese people in the Gold Rush? Read Jiang’s story to find out! My name is Jiang. I am now eighty-two years old‚ but I came to Australia when I was only 19. The reason I came to Australia was to take part in the Gold Rush‚ so I could look after my family. The Gold Rush started in 1851‚ but the news about it did not reach China until 1853. I wanted to come here the moment I found out about it‚ but my financial conditions

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    The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. “Railroads were the first big business‚ the first magnet for the great financial markets‚ and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic

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