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What happened to Australia's population in the ten years after gold was found?
- aIt more than doubledCorrect answer
- bIt stayed about the same
- cIt grew by only a few hundred people
- dIt fell by half
Why?
So many newcomers arrived looking for gold that the population more than doubled within ten years.
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