New Zealand History

Question 1

Why did the British want a treaty?

Answer 1

• if Britain did not make a treaty with the Maori chefs, USA or France would be able to claim New Zealand.

Question 2

Why did the Maori want a treaty?

Answer 2

• Maori signed a maori version of the treaty. Chiefs signed because they wanted controlls on sales of maori lands to europeans.
• they wanted to trade with europeans and believed the new relationship with Maori would stop the fighting between tribes

Question 3

What was said in the ENGLISH version in the FIRST ARTICLE of the Treaty?

Answer 3

Maori leaders/chief will give the queen ‘all the rights and powers of sovereignty’ (power or authority) over their land.

Question 4

What was said in the MAORI version in the FIRST ARTICLE of the Treaty?

Answer 4

Maori leaders/chiefs will give the queen ‘te kawanatanga Katoa’ meaning the complete government over land. (there was no direct translation for sovereignty)

Question 5

When was the flagpole first cut down by Hono Heke?

Answer 5

8th July 1844

Question 6

The cities involved in the northern wars

Answer 6

Kororareka, Puketutu, Te Ahuahu and Ohaewai

Question 7

What were the advantages of the English in the Northern Wars?

Answer 7

The british soldiers had full time fighters, better weapons and more well trained soilders

Question 8

What were the advantages of the Maori in the Northern Wars?

Answer 8

Maori had more valuable equipment

Question 9

Northern Wars

Answer 9

The most significant symbol of the northern wars is the cutting of the flag pole of Hono Heke in 1844. The conflict involved the Nga Puhi tribe and the British forces. The war began with the sacking of Kororareka. The fighting ended 6 months later in Ruapekapeka after the British were defeated in Ohaewai

Question 10

The Maori KIng

Answer 10

The job of the maori king was to help keep the mana of the chiefs (authority, honour) A waikato chief named Te Wherowhero was chosen to be king and was crowned in 1858. He took the name Potatau. He was chosen to be king because his family was connected to many leaders of the main ancestral canoes.

Question 11

Woman voting rights allowed in New Zealand

Answer 11

1893

Question 12

The taranaki wars

Answer 12

Wiremu Kingi was the leader of the maori forces in the first Taranaki war. In 1859, the chief Te teira Manuka offered to sell land at Waitara in North Taranaki to the crown. The government accepted the offer however Wiremu Kingi, a more senior chief denied thar Teira had the right to sell the Teira land, so war occured in March 1860. Taranaki then experienced a series of conflicts over land ownership and sovereignty which took place between maori and the nz government in the Taranaki district.

Question 13

Raupatu

Answer 13

confiscation of Maori land

Question 14

4 seats of the Maori

Answer 14

Eastern, Northern,, Western and Southern Maori electrol district.

Question 15

Cutting of the flag pole

Answer 15

Hono Heke first cut the flagpole because of the failure of policies to bring his people to wealth and riches and because of the increasing control of the british governmnt over maori land affairs. Hono Heke cut down the flagpole as a way of protesting. It was cut down 4 times by Hono Heke.

Question 16

Te Haratua

Answer 16

He first attacked the flagstaff in 1844, he was hono hekes assistant

Question 17

Orakau

Answer 17

most significant maori bought pa

Question 18

What was said in the ENGLISH version in the SECOND ARTICLE of the treaty?

Answer 18

Maori leaders and people collectively and individually were confirmed and guaranteed ‘exclusive and undisturbed possessions of their lands and other properties’

Question 19

What was said in the MAORI version in the SECOND ARTICLE of the treaty?

Answer 19

Maori were guaranteed ‘te tino rangatiratanga’ translating to the unqualified exercise of their chieftainship over their lands, villages… Maori also agreed to give the crown rights to buy their land if the Maori wished to sell it.