BUSHRANGERS
Bushrangers are bad people who escaped into the bush and survived by committing armed robbery, ‘bolters’ was the bushranger’s first name. Bushrangers were often convicts who had escaped when they first came to Australia. They thought in the bush, life would be better. Life wasn’t better, a few bushrangers survived. Often hunger drove people to crime. Bushranger’s targets were police and wealthy ( rich) people, convicts turned into bushrangers to steal more money.
Bushranging reached its peak in the mid- 1800s, travellers and coaches were carrying gold. Jackey Jackey and Ned Kelly were once bushrangers, but are now folk heroes, bushrangers were mostly thieves and dangerous murderers, Ned Kelly and Jackey Jackey’s adventures are told in songs and retold in poems, bushrangers robbed people, and murdered people in their own ways.
Below is a picture of the Bushranger Ned Kelly.
Jackey was a good folk hero bushranger, he never robbed people. He fought bad people who harmed others, but Jackey was arrested in 1841 because he murdered an unknown person. Ned Kelly is the most famous Australian bushranger, people see his family as being persecuted by the law. He was born in 1855 in Victoria.
Black Caesar is known as Australia’s first bushranger. His real name was John Caesar, he escaped jail four times and was captured four times. He was born in 1770 Madagascar in the east coast of Africa, he was a slave (once) in the West Indies, and he escaped and then headed for London. Black was found and then killed with out a warning by William Blakehurst, in 1796.
Mad Dan Morgan was arrested for 6 months, he was released in the year 1850, in 1862, Morgan escaped, and that’s when he became a bushranger, his real name was Daniel Morgan, in 1865, Morgan rode to a police station and held people hostage, but he was captured, and had his head got cut off so scientist’s could study it. For Mad Dan Morgan it wasn’t an easy life being a bushranger.
Daniel (Dan) Morgan (c. 1830 - 1865), by Samuel Calvert, 1864, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
FOOD AND ENTERTAIMENT
You can sit near a fire and tell stories sing and play music, you can go to a theatre or a music hall on a Sunday, and there were sports such as football, cricket, and boxing. We still enjoy games and entertainment today from the gold fields, diggers brought musical instruments to sing with, and they were the flute, violin, and concertina.
Diggers enjoyed dancing, and acting with each other, circuses travelled around putting on shows, a dance called the ‘cancan’ was a favourite dance, theatres put on puppet shows for kids, like there parents, kids don’t be quiet in shows, kids always make fun of the actors.
At large fairs there were things like running, jumping, weight throwing, and tug- a- war, ‘Prize fighting’ was only on Sunday’s, it’s where you form a circle like a ring and shout encouragement of your favourite fighter, some people tried to BAN ‘Prize fighting’ forever. Hunting in Britain was a sport for the rich people, in Australia it was for everyone.
ENTERTAINMENT AT HOME
You can read, write, draw, play cards, and backgannon, the popular thing was music making, it’s where you make music with instruments. Books and other stuff are in short supply, people buy books in stores as they run out, you can be pleased to get a six- year- old Adelaide newspaper, also it would be weeks for other supplies to arrive.
FOOD AT HOME
They cook stew in a pot over a big fire, or they have roasted meat hung up near a fire, or they have damper (we don’t know what it is), all of those different foods were their/ everyone’s main meals, they have there meals in the middle of the day.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
OUR RESEARCH
A lot of years many minors from all over the world came to Australia to try to seek their fortune, not many found gold but a few people stroked at rich. If some of the people found gold they would have traded it in for money. The people had to make a claim and then have a gold license to be able to search for gold.
PANNING FOR GOLD
Panning for gold is a very common way to search for gold, what people would find in the creek would be alluvial gold, the alluvial gold weighed 6 times more than sand so it sank right to the bottom of the creek. The pans were made out of iron and was a shaped like a food bowl.
SHARFT MINNING
Shaft mining is another method of getting gold, underground the men dug big holes and they were called shafts to stop the shafts from collapsing the men stuck timber up to the walls. One man would work down in the shaft shovelling dirt into a bucket, there was another man who was lifting up the bucket to the others. The man would wrap a rope around a log to get the bucket up, after that one of the other men would turn a handle to get the bucket up.
CRADLING
The minors were sick of panning for gold so they thought of a faster and different way to find gold so they thought of cradle. The name and look came from a babies rocking cradle, it would be 6 to 8 feet long and it would have 4 cleated nails underneath. If you wanted to use this way of finding gold you would need 4 people one to dig the gold mixed with sand and dirt, one to carry it to the cradle and empty the dirt and gold, one to keep shacking and rocking the cradle and the last person carried the water from the stream and emptied the water onto the cradle.
Only some people stroked at rich and others went back to their families empty handed but some others went home a millionaire either way they all tried even though men worked in groups there was still swearing and fighting.
INTERESTING FACTS
· THE MEN SWORE AND CURSED ON THE GOLDFIELDS
· THERE WAS A LOT OF VIOLENT ACTION
· SOMETIMES THE YOUNG MEN HELPED THEIR FATHERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· SBS GOLD
· THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDRUSH
· WWW.GOLDCRADLE.COM
· KIDS CYBER
· THEME BOOK
· Gold down under
LAWS
The government had said to the miners they had to work their claims everyday except Sunday, where the miners weren’t allowed to swear, drink or mine for gold. But the police had a more difficult job!!
The troopers just walked around every day checking licenses and only getting paid 1 ½ shillings a day. After the Victorian ruses the government had massive problems keeping law and order. So all the troopers had to be armed, because of fights between troopers and gold miners. Most troopers each carried the following, a pistol, a rifle and other weapons in case of fights. Some troopers made up there own rules.
By the late 1852 each major goldfield was run by:
*A Commissioner, paid 500 shillings a year.
* An Assistant Commissioner
* A Clerk.
*An inspector of troopers.
*A detachment of troopers paid 1 ½ shillings a day.
*Taps (foot police) paid 2/9 shillings a day.
*Native police (aboriginal) paid 1 ½ shillings a day.
PANNING FOR GOLD
Panning for gold is a very common way to search for gold, what people would find in the creek would be alluvial gold, the alluvial gold weighed 6 times more than sand so it sank right to the bottom of the creek. The pans were made out of iron and was a shaped like a food bowl.
SHARFT MINNING
Shaft mining is another method of getting gold, underground the men dug big holes and they were called shafts to stop the shafts from collapsing the men stuck timber up to the walls. One man would work down in the shaft shovelling dirt into a bucket, there was another man who was lifting up the bucket to the others. The man would wrap a rope around a log to get the bucket up, after that one of the other men would turn a handle to get the bucket up.
CRADLING
The minors were sick of panning for gold so they thought of a faster and different way to find gold so they thought of cradle. The name and look came from a babies rocking cradle, it would be 6 to 8 feet long and it would have 4 cleated nails underneath. If you wanted to use this way of finding gold you would need 4 people one to dig the gold mixed with sand and dirt, one to carry it to the cradle and empty the dirt and gold, one to keep shacking and rocking the cradle and the last person carried the water from the stream and emptied the water onto the cradle.
Only some people stroked at rich and others went back to their families empty handed but some others went home a millionaire either way they all tried even though men worked in groups there was still swearing and fighting.
INTERESTING FACTS
· THE MEN SWORE AND CURSED ON THE GOLDFIELDS
· THERE WAS A LOT OF VIOLENT ACTION
· SOMETIMES THE YOUNG MEN HELPED THEIR FATHERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· SBS GOLD
· THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDRUSH
· WWW.GOLDCRADLE.COM
· KIDS CYBER
· THEME BOOK
· Gold down under
LAWS
The government had said to the miners they had to work their claims everyday except Sunday, where the miners weren’t allowed to swear, drink or mine for gold. But the police had a more difficult job!!
The troopers just walked around every day checking licenses and only getting paid 1 ½ shillings a day. After the Victorian ruses the government had massive problems keeping law and order. So all the troopers had to be armed, because of fights between troopers and gold miners. Most troopers each carried the following, a pistol, a rifle and other weapons in case of fights. Some troopers made up there own rules.
By the late 1852 each major goldfield was run by:
*A Commissioner, paid 500 shillings a year.
* An Assistant Commissioner
* A Clerk.
*An inspector of troopers.
*A detachment of troopers paid 1 ½ shillings a day.
*Taps (foot police) paid 2/9 shillings a day.
*Native police (aboriginal) paid 1 ½ shillings a day.
OUR RESEARCH
A lot of years ago many minors from all over the world came to Australia to try to seek their fortune, not many found gold but a few people stroked at rich. If some of the people found gold they would have traded it in for money. The people had to make a claim and then have a gold license to be able to search for gold.
PANNING FOR GOLD
Panning for gold is a very common way to search for gold, what people would find in the creek would be alluvial gold, the alluvial gold weighed 6 times more than sand so it sank right to the bottom of the creek. The pans were made out of iron and was a shaped like a food bowl.
SHAFT MINNING
Shaft mining is another method of getting gold, underground the men dug big holes and they were called shafts to stop the shafts from collapsing the men stuck timber up to the walls. One man would work down in the shaft shovelling dirt into a bucket, there was another man who was lifting up the bucket to the others. The man would wrap a rope around a log to get the bucket up, after that one of the other men would turn a handle to get the bucket up.
CRADLING
The minors were sick of panning for gold so they thought of a faster and different way to find gold so they thought of cradle. The name and look came from a babies rocking cradle, it would be 6 to 8 feet long and it would have 4 cleated nails underneath. If you wanted to use this way of finding gold you would need 4 people one to dig the gold mixed with sand and dirt, one to carry it to the cradle and empty the dirt and gold, one to keep shacking and rocking the cradle and the last person carried the water from the stream and emptied the water onto the cradle.
Only some people stroked at rich and others went back to their families empty handed but some others went home a millionaire either way they all tried even though men worked in groups there was still swearing and fighting.
INTERESTING FACTS
· THE MEN SWORE AND CURSED ON THE GOLDFIELDS
· THERE WAS A LOT OF VIOLENT ACTION
· SOMETIMES THE YOUNG MEN HELPED THEIR FATHERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· SBS GOLD
· THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDRUSH
· WWW.GOLDCRADLE.COM
· KIDS CYBER
· THEME BOOK
· Gold down under
PANNING FOR GOLD
Panning for gold is a very common way to search for gold, what people would find in the creek would be alluvial gold, the alluvial gold weighed 6 times more than sand so it sank right to the bottom of the creek. The pans were made out of iron and was a shaped like a food bowl.
SHAFT MINNING
Shaft mining is another method of getting gold, underground the men dug big holes and they were called shafts to stop the shafts from collapsing the men stuck timber up to the walls. One man would work down in the shaft shovelling dirt into a bucket, there was another man who was lifting up the bucket to the others. The man would wrap a rope around a log to get the bucket up, after that one of the other men would turn a handle to get the bucket up.
CRADLING
The minors were sick of panning for gold so they thought of a faster and different way to find gold so they thought of cradle. The name and look came from a babies rocking cradle, it would be 6 to 8 feet long and it would have 4 cleated nails underneath. If you wanted to use this way of finding gold you would need 4 people one to dig the gold mixed with sand and dirt, one to carry it to the cradle and empty the dirt and gold, one to keep shacking and rocking the cradle and the last person carried the water from the stream and emptied the water onto the cradle.
Only some people stroked at rich and others went back to their families empty handed but some others went home a millionaire either way they all tried even though men worked in groups there was still swearing and fighting.
INTERESTING FACTS
· THE MEN SWORE AND CURSED ON THE GOLDFIELDS
· THERE WAS A LOT OF VIOLENT ACTION
· SOMETIMES THE YOUNG MEN HELPED THEIR FATHERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
· SBS GOLD
· THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDRUSH
· WWW.GOLDCRADLE.COM
· KIDS CYBER
· THEME BOOK
· Gold down under
Thursday, October 23, 2008
GOLD VIDEOS
WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT GOLD OVER THE PAST TERM. WE ALL HAD TO CHOOSE SOMETHING ABOUT GOLD THAT WE WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT. AND THEN RESEARCH SOME INFORMATION. AFTER WE DID THAT WE HAD TO SHARE WHAT WE HAD LEARNT WITH THE OTHER PEOPLE IN OUR GROUP. WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A CLASS COURT CASE WHICH MEANT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE USE WHAT THEY HAD LEARNT AND PRESENT IT TO THE REST OF THE CLASS LIKE WE WERE IN COURT. WE HAD TO TRY AND CONVINCE EVERYONE THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE ON THE GOLD FIELDS WHO WE TREATED REALLY BADLY AND THAT THEY STILL MADE AUSTRALIA A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. WE DIDN'T END UP DOING THIS BECAUSE TIME RAN OUT SO WE ALL MADE VIDEOS SHOWING WHAT WE HAD DONE.
PLEASE WATCH OUR VIDEOS AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO YEAR 5 NEXT YEAR AND SHOW OUR VIDEOS TO THE NEW YEAR 5 SO THAT THEY CAN FIND OUT ABOUT GOLD FROM US..
Watch our videos and enjoy.
PLEASE WATCH OUR VIDEOS AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO YEAR 5 NEXT YEAR AND SHOW OUR VIDEOS TO THE NEW YEAR 5 SO THAT THEY CAN FIND OUT ABOUT GOLD FROM US..
Watch our videos and enjoy.
Monday, September 8, 2008
I think our gold learning groups. I think it is a great way for us to learn more about gold. I think it is great to be able to research different things that you have t research.I am researching the license system and about the miners. I am looking forward to researching about miners and license system.
GOLD PROJECT!!!!!!
I think this gold project will be very interesting because the excursion gave us a lot of information and the gold blog has a lot of links to lots of information about anything your subject that you are doing.I think it is going to be fun!!!!
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