Lambing Flats

Question 0

What were the long term causes for the lambing flats massacre? Expand.

Answer 0

CHINESE IMMIGRATION
- happened because of gold discovery
- large influx - 13k Chinese came in 1861
FEAR OF CHINESE
- competition for gold and wealth
- difference in culture, language and features
- envy of resentment and work ethic

Question 1

When did it occur?

Answer 1

1861, over a ten month period

Question 2

*What was the short term cause of the Lambing Flats Massacre? Expand.

Answer 2

(ANGER)
REPORT
- “easy to mine” gold would run out quickly
- in 1861 13k Chinese moved to lambing flats.

Question 3

What were the effects and outcomes of the a Lambing Flats Massacre? Expand

Answer 3

MINERS PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
- formed to protect white diggers
- aimed to get rid of Chinese, tried to say they wasted water
- this couldn’t happen, premier rejected it because of China’s treaty with Britain
LAWS MADE
- ideas of racism and nationalism formed
- Chinese immigration act and federal immigration restriction act
- introduced law of entering country