The Eureka Stockade
"Were the miners at Eureka traitors or revolutionaries? Justify your view."
1. What is a revolutionary?
A revolutionary is someone who thinks the people in charge aren’t treating others fairly and wants to change things to make things better.
2. What was wrong?At the goldfields at Eureka the license fee was way too high. It was 30 shillings a month for a gold license (200 dollars in today’s money). If that was not bad enough, the fine for not having a license was 5 pounds! In the end there were a lot of people who couldn’t pay and got in trouble and had to pay more.
3. What changed after the Eureka Stockacke?
The license fee was abolished and the Miners Right took its place. A Miner’s Right gave the right to dig gold, own land and vote. It cost a pound instead of 30 shillings, but lasted for a year instead of a month. Eight new members were elected to parliament to represent the gold fields, and license hunts were banned. So in the end, everything was a whole lot better.
2 comments:
Who needs gold miners anyway? Aren't they just a plague on society - people who want to rise up so they in turn can oppress the poor. The only honest ones amongst them were the police - not counting the corrupt license chasers...
I didn't want to write this but mum said i had to
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