1. Of all the complaints that the Europeans had about the Chinese, which do you think was the most serious? Why? Soon, criticisms that the Chinese were muddying water needed to wash gold turned to a real worry that so much Chinese were coming as to not leave any gold for the Europeans. This is quite serious because then this gives the European miners a ‘chance’ to press taxes or an excuse to drive them off. This can also develop into accusations against the Chinese miners which they would have to face unjust consequences. It’s likely that petty complaints like this lead to extremely serious attacks which an attack in July 1857 was an example of one. A group of European miners went to a Chinese camp trying to drive them off, however, it only
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The unnecessary imposition of taxing the Chinese miners meant that the miners had to pay more for not only entry but occupying their own workplace. This would have been very expensive for the workers and requestion whether or not they want to mine in Australia or come back to their countries.
6. How far is it between these two points?
The distance between these places is 405.8km.
7. Why did the Chinese travel this distance? The Chinese had no option but to travel this distance in an effort to avoid taxes and possibly to find more gold.
8. What do think might be the strange customs and dress referred to? Investigate. During the Gold Rush, the Chinese miners used different mining methods to the Europeans and so they preferred to wear different clothing. Predominantly the Chinese men wore their hair in ponytails. Customs that occurred in their mining was constructing round shafts rather than rectangular ones, as the Chinese were very superstitious and believed that evil spirits hid in corners, however, they would not want to turn their backs on such spirits to cause bad luck.
Gambling was also very popular in a Chinese miner’s lifestyle. A census carried out in 1887, by the Reverend William Young recorded that at least 50 Chinese gambling houses. He also estimated that 1in 2 Chinese gambled
The unnecessary imposition of taxing the Chinese miners meant that the miners had to pay more for not only entry but occupying their own workplace. This would have been very expensive for the workers and requestion whether or not they want to mine in Australia or come back to their countries.
6. How far is it between these two points?
The distance between these places is 405.8km.
7. Why did the Chinese travel this distance? The Chinese had no option but to travel this distance in an effort to avoid taxes and possibly to find more gold.
8. What do think might be the strange customs and dress referred to? Investigate. During the Gold Rush, the Chinese miners used different mining methods to the Europeans and so they preferred to wear different clothing. Predominantly the Chinese men wore their hair in ponytails. Customs that occurred in their mining was constructing round shafts rather than rectangular ones, as the Chinese were very superstitious and believed that evil spirits hid in corners, however, they would not want to turn their backs on such spirits to cause bad luck.
Gambling was also very popular in a Chinese miner’s lifestyle. A census carried out in 1887, by the Reverend William Young recorded that at least 50 Chinese gambling houses. He also estimated that 1in 2 Chinese gambled