Eureka Stockade

Analyse the causes of the Eureka Stockade Jeff Cheng 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 …

…death. After this three men were imprisoned as ‘ringleaders’ of the riot, which pushed the other diggers to boiling point. Due to these tensions on the goldfields, the miners then built a wooden fort on Bakery Hill, which was where the Battle of Eureka took place. This was an attack by the police on the Stockade which left three soldiers and twenty-two diggers dead in the closest Australia has ever been to a civil war.