San Francisco improved communication, and Hawaii exported great quantities ofĪmericans also became landowners disproportionately. Hawaii and the United States closer as regular shipping between Honolulu and The California gold rush (1848) and California statehood (1850) drew 2 Commerce flourished in Hawaii with the aid of American whalers.

Industry in 1846, 596 ships arrived at Honolulu, Oahu, and Lahaina, Maui, the vast majority American. For the next fifty years the New England whaling fleet used HawaiiĪs its Pacific port. Unprofitable there and New England whalers turned to By theġ820s, over hunting in the Atlantic had made whaling 1 Their greatest influence was not spiritual or political, but economic, predominantly through whaling. Additionally, after leaving the Mission, some missionaries became significant advisors to the Hawaiian Monarchy throughīy the 1840's, most foreigners living in Hawaii wereĪmericans: missionaries, businessmen, and craftsmen.

Protestantism and many, including the royal family, were educated in mission During the next few decades, Hawaiians were exposed to American-style Relations with Hawaii made America the dominant influence in the Islands.Īmerican missionaries began to arrive from NewĮngland in 1820 and gained much spiritual and political influence with Hawaiian The British, the Russians, and the French, America's closer geographic proximity, its Protestant missions in Hawaii, and its economic Hundreds of people from Hawaii and elsewhere in the Pacific world served in theĪrmies and Navies of the Union and Confederacy.Īlthough Hawaii had been visited and influenced by Sugar began its rise as the economic king, and Hawaiian property and citizens became casualties of war, Diplomaticĭecisions were required and domestic politics took a

Hawaii's close relationship economically, diplomatically, and socially with the United States ensured that the wake of theĪmerican Civil War reached the Hawaiian Islands.

The Kingdom of Hawaii was a sovereign, developing nation. When the first shot of the American Civil War was fired atįort Sumter off the coast of South Carolina, nearly six thousand miles away, The Effects of the American Civil War on Hawai’i and the Pacific World Justin W.

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