The Eureka Stockade affected the way Australia 's western-style democracy formed between c.1870-1914 and showed how people wanted Australia 's government system to be more democratic and fair. It also provided some characteristics for Australia such as mateship. The Eureka Stockade is still seen as an effective symbol for protests group in the modern day. The Eureka Rebellion took place in Ballarat, Victoria in 1854. Many people came from all around the world hoping to get rich by finding gold. Conditions were rough and dangerous. The government put expensive taxes on the gold miners (30 shillings a month or £8 a year), and even if they did not find gold they still had to pay for a licence. The miners thought this was unfair and worked …show more content…
This wave resulted in changes such as British men gaining more political rights, including the right to vote. Some of the miners in Ballarat witnessed the revolution for example Rafaello Carboni and Frederick Vern. Victoria became a colony on 1st July 1851 and had a population of 77,000. Because of the gold rush, Victoria 's population doubled. The government brought in gold licences and police checks of the licences called "licence hunts". In December1851 governor Charles La Trobe wanted to double the licence fees and tensions started rising on the goldfields because of this. Miners were angry and the 'great meeting ' of more than 10,000 people occurred on Mount Alexander near Castlemaine. La Trobe ended up not increasing the fee. On the 22nd of June 1854, Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham arrived in Victoria and tried to increase the colony 's revenue by increasing the frequency of licence hunts. This made the miners even more upset and tensions on the goldfields got worse. The miners signed petitions and sent people to talk to Hotham but this did not help. On the 7th of October 1854, James Scobie (a gold miner) was murdered outside the Eureka Hotel. The miners thought that the hotel owner James Bentley was guilty but he was set free because of lack of evidence. A lot of miners believed that the Magistrate was friends with James Bentley. Obviously, this made the miners furious. …show more content…
This abuse started in the 1950s and it affected many people from the time the abuse occurred until later in their life or even their whole life. For example in 2012, at least 40 people committed suicide in Victoria because of the abuse they had faced. When the children told their parents and the authorities, they brushed it off just like the Victorian authorities did about the gold licence fees. When the discoveries of the abuse were found to be true, many people lost faith in the Catholic Church. This became worse when the church attempted to cover up the abuse stories. The end result of the Eureka Rebellion gives the people that were abused, their friends and families hope for justice. Many people that don’t know the people that were abused also helped and encouraged them to keep going. This is shown in the picture of ribbons tied to the fences in front of Catholic Churches and schools in Ballarat. Like in the Eureka Rebellion, the abuse victims and their families also talked to authorities about their demands. They wanted to be listened to, for the Church to apologise and to be paid
The miners in the Eureka Stockade fought as hard as they could to change the gold licences to be fair. The Eureka Stockade shaped Australians colony, because we wouldn’t have as much democracy today. In the Eureka Stockade some of the key figures were John Humffray Basson, Peter Lalor, Timothy Hayes and Anastasia Hayes, with the miners. Robort Rede and Governer Hayes, with the Governor.
Parliament created the declaratory act and then later the Townshend duties. The colonists despised these new implications and many overlooked the declaratory act and colonists boycotted, petitioned, and used news papers to attack the Townshend duties. This did not sit well back in Britain due to the colonists evident defiance of the crown. To collect the taxes that the colonist were supposed to be paying in Boston Britain sent in red coats to collect the crown's money. By the crown doing this the colonists banded together and began rioting.
Questions for Days 131-150: 1. Charles Grandison Finney was an evangelist who was a preacher who helped in religiously reviving Americans. He was the first of the professional evangelists. 2. Dorothea Dix was a crusader who supported mentally impaired people.
The textbook first begins with an explanation on the Cariboo gold rush, specifically identifying how it had an impact on British Columbia; delving in to the California Gold Rush later on. Notably, it describes how the rush to claim land in BC and mine it for Gold aided the early development of the province. However, the California Gold Rush is given more detail into its origins, detailing how Gold attracted upwards of thousands of people to search for gold along the Sacramento River. Henceforth, prospecting for gold became necessary in the field, which was commonly disappointing, for many staked claims on land to mine, while the best claims were already taken. Accordingly, many who went to mine were unemployed when the gold was all gone.
To start, once gold was discovered, miners and businessmen raced to California to get their hands on any gold they could. When westerners got their gold on the market, “each spoonful was worth $8 in gold,” and was a product everyone
The Gold Rush was saw as opportunity to everyone around the world, some came for the gold, some came to sell common needs of the average gold miner. About 300,000 people came to California for the new fortune. Also about 2 billion money worth of gold was extracted during these times. Sam Brannan created the hype for gold, so he can sell his mining supplies to the miners, he made more than for panning for gold. The gold rush also created the levi’s pants.
The Populist Movement was a period of political reform in the 1800s. Whether the move was a success or failure is highly debatable. The Populist Movement was successful for many reasons, they introduced many of the laws that we have today, they had a candidate running for President with a major party, and they had a lasting effect on politics and economics all over the world.
I believe one of the most significant referendums in Australia that was carried, is the 1967 Referendum to include Aboriginal people within Section 51 and 127 of the Constitution. Prior to the 1st of January 1901, the Australian Constitution took effect and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Under the laws of the Australian Government, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were not included as citizens. Instead they were treated as foreigners in their own land. On the 27th of May 1967, a Federal referendum was held to determine whether two references in the Australian Constitution, which discriminated against Aboriginal people, should be altered or entirely removed.
In the year 1837, a radical movement in the British colony of Lower Canada participated in an armed rebellion to seek by force what they had failed to secure by legal political action. The principle objective towards which the uprising was directed had been given various names by historians such as political freedom, democracy and representative government. The rebels took arms in an effort to end the appointed minority's domination of the colony's governing institutions and to establish a responsible government. The Lower Canadian Rebellion was prosecuted on the advancement of liberty and republicanism. Within the North American context, these broad tenets articulated the importance of a sovereign, educated and virtuous citizenry as well as the standards of an effective government constitutionally constrained in its authority.
The Gold Rush, beginning in 1848 and ending in 1855, was a period in American history which opened the doors of opportunity to a new group of immigrants, the Chinese. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, California, in 1848 was the cause of mass Chinese immigration that would last for decades to come. When James Marshall discovered gold in 1848, there were fifty-four recorded Chinese in California, this number quickly rose to 116,000 by 1876. Title (Chinese Immigration During the Gold Rush: The American Encounter) The California Gold Rush allowed for immigrants, such as the Chinese, to encounter the various beliefs and suspicions of the American society.
Charles Perkins played a major role in the Freedom Ride in order to shape Australian society from the 1960’s onwards. His key role in the Freedom Ride allowed him to successfully advocate for the desegregation of Australian institutions and towns as well as to reduce the amount of discrimination against Indigenous Australians. He endeavoured to make a change in Australian society, and wanted to expose the true nature of discrimination and segregation against Indigenous Australians. He wanted to gain the rights and freedom for his people, and effectively achieved those goals. Therefore, Charles Perkins did play a major role in the Freedom Ride from the 1960’s onwards, resulting in the improvement of Australian society.
I. The California Gold Rush is one of the most known gold rushes in the U.S. The phenomenon was started by James Marshall when he found gold in the American River and he said “My heart thumped for I knew it was gold.” Because of his findings the California Gold Rush was born in 1848, then died seven years later in 1855. During these seven years California accumulated over 300,000 people that left their homes to mine for gold.
The California Gold Rush was a rush of people in search of gold in California. The gold was discovered in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 which sparked the gold rush. The rush was a huge influence in how America was shaped into what it is today. It shaped California into what it is today. Without this gold rush California would be like it is today but it would have taken way more years and it wouldn’t be such a diversely populated state.
In the late 1800s there was a big gold rush. 100,000 people travelled miles to get to that gold. First they rode a train then walked. The people that went looking for gold were just normal ordinary people. Only 30,000 people ended up traveling.
It was discovered on January 24th 1848 by James Marshall in California. A quarter million people migrated to California for the chance to get rich and other personal reasons. Foreigners from all around the world came to America to either search for gold or the new opportunities open. As time progressed corporations were formed that could buy new technology and workers to search for gold and several boom towns had formed in California. As more and more people moved west the United States faced another issue.