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Western ContactCaptain James Cook

• January 18, 1778, James Cooks discovery of
  Hawaii and his third pacific voyage.
• Arrived on the ship called the Revolution
• Cook named the Islands the Sandwich Islands
• Natives believed he was the reincarnated god
  Lono, god of peace and agriculture
• 1779, Cook is killed over a dispute at Kealakekua
  Bay, Big Island.

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Christian Missionaries Arrive

• 1820- the first protestant missionaries arrive
  from New England.
• Missionaries played a part in developing American
  foreign policy and changing the boundaries of
  expectations in religious life domestically.
• When early missionaries arrived in the Sandwich
  Islands, later Hawaii, (after 1820) they
  conflicted with commercial and naval interests.
• The missionaries interposed themselves as friends
  of the Hawaiians and tried to protect them from
  victimization. At the same time, they worked
  strenuously to supplant native religion with
  Christian faith.
• In both cases they played a large part in
  bringing Hawaii to United States' consciousness
  and eventually helped lead to its annexation in
  1900.

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Native Population Decline

• As with American Indians on the mainland, the
  Native Hawaiian population was wiped out with the
  arrival of white settlers.
• Diseases such as small pox, measles and whooping
  cough were deadly to the native Hawaiians.
• 1853, smallpox epidemic takes lives of over 5,000
  native Hawaiians
• When the first Europeans arrived in 1778, the
  islands' population was an estimated 800,000 to 1
  million. By the time Queen Lili'uokalani was
  forced to abdicate her throne more than a century
  later, the Native Hawaiian population was 40,000.
• Todays population of pure Hawaiian is estimated
  at less than 8,000. Part Hawaiian population is
  estimated to be around 255,000.

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The Hawaiian Monarchythe Kamehameha Dynasty

• Kamehameha The Great unifies all the Hawaiian
  Islands by1810, dies in 1819
• Kamehameha II -Prince Liholiho abandons the
  kapu system in 1819.
• Kamehameha III- 1839, Declaration of Rights and
  freedom of religion adopted. By 1840, he creates
  the first Constitution and by 1848, the social
  class is created.
• Kamehameha IV- Tries to avoid trade with America
  
• in fear of losing the nation to America.
• Kamehameha V- 1863- 1872 Had no heir to
• the throne, lead to the end of the
  Kamehameha
• Dynasty