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)
Why did the Chinese want sandalwood?
To carve into delicate boxes and sacred objects and to use for incense and oil. also perfumes.
How did Kamehameha 1 keep control over the sandalwood supply?
He ordered people to plant more trees and left unharmed and he made a kapu preventing makaʻāniana from harvesting and selling it themselves
What happened when Liholiho came to rule during the sandalwood trade?
He couldn’t keep control over the supply so chiefs to advantage of the trade for themselves
What did the Chiefs do to the makaʻāinana in order to continue the sandalwood trade?
They were forced to cut down trees for trade and haul them to the ships without allowing them to do the regular ahupuaʻa work, so the food became scares.
Who wrote about hawaiian hardships during the time of sandalwood trade?
Samuel Kamakau
True or False: The chiefs were responsible and thought ahead and planted more sandalwood trees.
False. They did NOT plant more trees, but still kept cutting them down due to the money they were receiving. They then accumulated a big debt.
Describe life when Kamehameha 3 came to power in 1824.
There was little sandalwood in Hawaiʻi, They had a huge debt, people were forced to move to town because of their falling farms due to focus on sandalwood, and also large numbers of hawaiian men left on vessels to find life elsewhere.
What was the name of the governor who had a huge debt, and journeyed elsewhere to find more sandalwood.
Governor Boki
What year did a British ship come an spark governor Bokiʻs interest?
1829
Where did Governor Boki find more sandalwood?
the islands of New Hebrides
How did the journey to find more sandalwood go?
Terribly. Both ships suffered fatalities and loss. Keokoʻi made it back safely but Kamehameha, the boat Boki was on, MIGHT have blown up.
True or False: Hawaiʻi never payed of the debts and we are still suffering the consequences today.
False. The American government prodded and prodded and threatened them three times with US warships
When did whaling start?
As early as 1776
Why did people whale?
To get oil for Western lamps and for whalebone to make women’s corsets
What did the whalers and native Hawaiians trade?
The native Hawaiians traded meat, vegetables, fruit, food, water, and rope in exchange for Western goods (firearms, ammunition, cloth, clothing, furniture, and utensils)
What started happening to Hawaiʻi when the whalers started coming?
Honolulu, Lahaina, population decreased and Hilo, became noisy and crowded.
What did sailors bring with them that was fatal to native Hawaiians?
Communicable diseases that were fatal to the Hawaiians because they had no immunity against the diseases.
What did sailors do to the population of native Hawaiians on the island?
It went down a little because a lot of young people left on whaling ships
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When and where was oil found that was not whale oil?
In Pennsylvania, 1859 and replaced whale oil importance.
How and why did Hawaiians feel about William Hooper in the beginning?
They were untrusting of him because they saw him as an extension of the sandalwood era. Which they were not happy about because they were the most affected by it.
How did Hooper pay his Hawaiian workers?
He used coupons which were scraps of paper 12 1/2 cents for man and 6 1/2 for women.
When and where was the first sugar plantation
1836 in kōloa on the island of Kaua’i.
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What were Williams coupons used for?
They could be used at Williams plantation store to buy goods, instead of money.
What was the reason for the spike of interest in sugar?
- the 1848 gold rush in California. Hawaiians also went, and settlers needed sugar and others.
- Trade with San Fransisco was becoming more popular in the 1850s
What was the Great Māhele of 1848 do?
It allowed the private ownership of land in Hawaiʻi. (A lot of foreigners bought land)
When was RHAS (Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society) made and when did it end?
August 1850, ended 7 years later so 1857
What was RHAS responsible for?
- Contacted the first Chinese plantation workers in 1852
- Worked closely with the government so in 1856 there would be 5 more sugar plantations
___________ permitted _______ to start a small sugar plantation in Mānoa Valley in 1825, however it failed.
Governor Boki/ John Wilkinson
Why did Chinese laborers come to work in Hawaiʻi in 1852?
People were dying, becoming regular farmers due to lack of food, and leaving for the gold rush, and sugar plantations kept growing
Why was capital crucial to the early development of the sugar industry?
Because capital made improvements in production methods, machinery, and mills.
What was the centrifugal machine, who made it, and when was it made?
The centrifugal machine separated sugar from molasses. From a description of the machine, David Weston made his own one and tested it in October 1851 on the east Maui plantation.
What are three other improvements that sugar brought?
- Irrigation (1856)
- Fertilizer (1840s ish but lots in 1885)
- Soil Analysis (1895)
What benefits did the Hawaiians get from their plantation community.
Small homes, small plots of land to grow food, and medical care. But that meant they were dependent on Hooper for their daily needs.
