Eureka Stockade

In December 1854, a hundred and fifty gold diggers on the Ballarat goldfields finally rebelled against the Victorian government and built a wooden fort on a hill that became the Eureka Stockade. A main cause for this was the high price for the gold license that every miner had to carry. Another cause was the constant harassment of the diggers by the police, or ‘traps’ during the license hunts. The final event that made the diggers’ anger snap was the murder of a miner by a hotel owner.

Tensions on the goldfields were sparked by the gold licenses that were introduced by Governor LaTrobe in 1851. It was the law that every male

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Approximate Word count = 464
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)