Chapter 6/7 Test Flashcards
T/F The first American missionaries arrived in Hawaiʻi less than a year after the formal overthrow of the Kapu system
True
What ship did the missionaries come aboard?
Thaddeus, from boston
How many months was the missionaries journey to Hawaiʻi?
5 months
Where and when did the missionaries come ashore?
Kailua, on the island of HAWAIʻI, March 30, 1820
The missionaries who arrived were part of a religous movement called the what?
The second great awakening
Who did the original group of missionaries that came to Hawaiʻi consist of?
2 ministers, a doctor, 2 schoolteachers, a farmer, and a printer. All married men accompanied by their wives.
Liholiho let the missionaries stay for how long on a probationary basis?
1 year
_______ is the belief in one god
monotheism
Did the missionaries teach the Hawaiians English, or learned Hawaiian themselves?
They learned Hawaiian themselves, then translated the bible into Hawaiian; They tried at first to teach the Hwaiians English, but it proved too difficult
in what year did Kaʻahumanu proclaim a little code of laws based on Christian beliefs?
1824
Who were the Hawaiians four main gods, aka akua?
Lono, Kāne, Kanaloa, and Kū.
Integration two religous systems and practicing them at the same time is called what?
Syncretism
who had the jobs of both treating people with minor ailments or sicknessʻs and being a priest?
the Kahuna lapaʻau
Which historian wrote that foreigners carries pathogenic microorganisms and were responsible for the spreads of coughs and colds?
Historian O. A. Bushnell
In _____, Hawaiʻiʻs first epidemic, typhoid fever, spread throughout Hawaiʻi, causing a serious blow to the population numbers.
1804
during the ______s, infant mortality rates were at an all time high.
1800s
What was the isolated island the government sent sick Hawaiians to?
The Makanalua Peninsula on the north side of Molokaʻi.
(Kalaupapa and kalawao)
What year was the first documented case of leprosy in Hawaiʻi?
1840
What was the first colony to be established on the makanalua peninsula?
Kalawao
The first 12 patients traveled to Kalawao on board the ________, and arrived in _____
The Warwick, 1866
an estimated HOW MANY people were sent to colonies over a century
8,000
What were the names of the two people who were canonized for their efforts to save people on the peninsula?
Mother Marianne Cope (Kaluapapa) and Father Damien (Kalawao)
when did father Damien die?
1889
(of hansens disease, aka leprosy)