Causes Of The Eureka Stockade

In December 1854, a hundred and fifty gold diggers on the Ballarat goldfields in victoria 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 that the miners wanted to claim the land which they were mining incase they had struck gold but were often forced to relocate because the law did not allow them to claim the land and 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