Gold rush essay
The gold rush was an event in the Australian gold fields were Australians came to strike rich .The intention of this essay is to discuss if the gold rush was a tragedy for overseas immigration. Before this essay addresses why the Australian gold rush was a tragedy for multiculturalism this essay must describe what the event was. What was the Australian gold rush? Why did the gold rush attract people from overseas? And what treatment did immigrants receive once they commenced working in the Australian Gold Fields?
In 1851, Edward Hargraves discovered a piece of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst. This created a frenzy that started something called the gold rush. When Edward discovered this thousands of Australians and people
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Because almost every person that went had success any person that herd of the success would come for some as well. This created a frenzy and thousands of people overseas came to Australia to strike rich. When the gold rush started more than 400 miners came within a week and 2000 within a few months. Ophir was home to more than 1000 miners just four months after Hargraves discovery of the gold. This shows how many people wanted to strike rich in the gold field of Australia and why they did. A letter in Melbourne, September 6, 1852 said “It would be utterly impossible to give you any idea of the state of things in Melbourne now. It is such as the world never saw before, and perhaps never will again. With thousands arriving every day from England, California, and America, &c., we have still the same number of houses in Melbourne that we had when the population was only about 24,000 before the gold discovery. You may think what it must be now. A complete wilderness of tents has sprung up all round the city, in which all the most hardened villains in the colony have their haunts, and through which it is not safe to walk in broad daylight." This shows and summarises that the gold rush attracted people from overseas because of how much success everyone was