acquitted
barricade claim colony cradle democracy diggers dispute erosion federation gold escort governor immigrants licence martial law pan parliament prospector publican reform riot shaft stockade treason trooper |
declared innocent after being charged of a crime
a quickly built barrier a piece of land granted to a miner to search for minerals an area of land that is occupied and settled by people from a distant nation, which remains partly or fully controlled by that nation a wooden and metal frame for washing dirt or gravel to separate out specks of gold a method of government where the people’s views direct the decisions and laws being made people who look for gold an fight or argument when the land is washed, scraped or blown away the formation of a new nation by a number of smaller nations, states or former colonies giving some of their powers to the central government a group of soldiers protecting a wagon carrying gold from the gold fields to another place a person who rules a colony people who arrive from another country to settle in a new country a permit stating that the person who owns it has paid to gain permission to do something, such as dig for gold the announcement of special laws in times of unrest which gives the police and armed forces extra powers a shallow dish used for washing dirt and gravel to separate any specks of gold a law-making body made up of elected representative of people a searcher for gold or precious stones a person who owns and runs a hotel, pub or inn a change to a system to improve or modernise it a large group of people shouting and fighting a tunnel dug usually vertically(straight down) into the ground a rough defence fort made of wood or anything that is available the crime of trying to weaken or take over the government a mounted police officer |
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