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The high numbers of bushrangers in the 1700s and early 1800s were due to the numbers of escaped convicts. Becoming a bushranger was often the only way for an escaped convict to survive.
Numbers of bushrangers after 1851 increased as a result of the gold rushes. Coaches or people on horseback carrying gold from the goldfields were easy targets for bushrangers.
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When was summer break invented?
I can't answer this specifically but I believe it started in America probably in the 1700s or 1800s. Schools had summer break so that the kids and some teachers could help out on the farm at home. Children would tend to the crops and keep the animals fed and clean
What was the drawback to the creation of cotton products in the 1800s?
Since Jamestown in 1607, cotton has been grown in the South. It first became a major cash crop in the 1700s. Soon inventions such as the spinning jenny and the cotton gin made production of cotton into textiles quicker and easier. But the picking of cotton was a drawback into the 1800s. Harvesting could not be done by machines at the time. So larger farmers of cotton came to rely on the labor of African-American slaves. As a result, cotton cultivation shaped the lives of Southerners, from white plantation-owning families to the slaves who worked the fields.
Why did so many people go to California in the 1800s?
This was the time of the California Gold Rush, in which hundreds of thousands of people flocked to California hoping to strike it rich.
Why were so many elements discovered in the 1800s?
About 70 elements had been discovered by the mid-1800s.
What did people think in the 1800s caused day and night?
There was a lot of superstition in the 1800s and many people thought that god caused day and night by looking through a telescope (which was the sun) and every 12 hours would rotate it around the other side of the world so he could see the people on the other side of the equator and with no telescope the was no sun so it was going to be dark.
Why is the 19th century the 1800s and 18th century 1700s and so on?
cause its stupid.
What do bushrangers build shelters with?
Bushrangers did not build shelters. They needed to hide form the authorities, so their most common shelter was in caves or under cliff overhangs in mountainous countryside.
What what was the problem with the iron bridges?
The problem with iron bridges was that the material was not as reliable as carbon steel, so it was replaced starting in the late 1800s and was completely unavailable for bridge building by the early 1900s. Bridges in the late 1700s were made of cast iron, but, by the early 1800s, cast iron gave way to wrought iron.
What jobs did colonists in new England colonies have?
in the 1700s the new England colonies mainly had subsistence farming because of harsh climates and rocky soil. but in the 1800s the industrial revolution happened so many new England colonist became factory workers.
Why did so many Americans join the Methodist church in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
Because they were afraid of war, and tyranny by Britain, and needed moral support and security. As far as the Catholic church, merchants resented paying 10% of their income, so they were protestant rather than catholic for moral support, and to get by on the money that they did have(in this time, people were still growing food, and many died of starvation)
Why then do Australians rate bushrangers so highy?
Although bushrangers are criminals and there will always be criminals, but many bushrangers became bushrangers as a result of social and political forces. During Australia's colonial period, many settlers were of Irish descent, and catholic, which was not a great thing in the eyes of the British Colonial government of the time. Also, the Victoria Police were of questionable value and notoriously corrupt. Between the two problems, many people were compelled to move or rebel. Ned Kelly was one of those who rebelled and became something of a folk hero in the process. Whilst it could be argued that his short life of crime was for his own benefit, there is enough documentary evidence to support the notion that he gave much of the proceeds of his robberies to victims of colonial oppression (Robin Hood style). Ned Kelly was the most notorious of these bushrangers, there were others, but the majority of bushrangers were just bottom feeders who felt that life for them would be easier if they did not have to work for a living, just like today's criminals all over the world.
What was going on in the mid 1700s?
There are SO many things/events that happened in the 1700s. The French and Indian War happened, and lots of other things I don't know or care about. Kay? Dummy....Lol JK
Was slavery most violent in the 1600s and 1700s less violent in the 1800s?
American Slaves were never given protections under the law so there was really never a "less violent" time. They were looked on as property so the level of violence depended on the attitude of the individual owners toward their slaves.
Why was british prison so overcrowded in 1700s?
durry
When was summer break invented?
I can't answer this specifically but I believe it started in America probably in the 1700s or 1800s. Schools had summer break so that the kids and some teachers could help out on the farm at home. Children would tend to the crops and keep the animals fed and clean
What was one consequence of so many young people in the early 1800s?
More women entered the workforce.
Why did bushrangers want to be bushrangers?
People became bushrangers for a number of reasons:Greed.They had already had a run-in with the law, so they felt they had nothing more to lose.Revenge or anger against the lawmakers.They'd had a life of poverty that they wanted to get away from.They were influenced by stories of other bushrangers in what they erroneously perceived as heroism.
