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Kamehameha V: Lot kapuāiwa
The last Kamehameha described as the last great traditional cheif. -
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Never married or had any children
he named a successor, his sister Victoria Kamamalu was his heir, but she died in 1866. -
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Hāni child
he was adopted by princess Nāhi'ena'ena, but she died. -
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Hawaiian population goes from 125,000 to 52,000
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Grandparents take him in
His grand mother Queen Kalākua took him in after the death of princess Nāhiʻenaʻena. -
Lot entered the cheifs royal school.
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Traveled the world
went to california, british columbia, England, and France with his brother Alexander ʻIolani Liholiho Keawenui. -
Preference for Britain.
While in America, Alexander ʻIolani Liholiho Keawenui was racially discriminated on a train when a man told him he was in the wrong car just because he thought he was a servant of somebody becaause of his brown skin. This is probablly what starts king kamehameha IV and V's preference for Britain. -
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served under his brother as minister of finance and interior.
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Lot supported cattle industry and founded molokai ranch. was also the president of the Graziers Association
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Americans paid higher price for Hawaiian sugar because of civil war.
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Ascended the Throne age 33
when his brother King Kamehameha IV died, then his sister Kaahumanu IV, who was the 2nd in command, inauguated him in. -
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refused to legalize hard liquor and bad activites that hurt the hawaiian people
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He refused to take an oath to uphold the 1852 constituttion.
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Changed the constitution
Changed the constitution so that the office of Kuhina Nui was abolished and gave more power to the monarch -
Started the royal order of kamehameha
To preserve the sovereignty of Hawaii -
Big fight!
A fist fight broke out in the legislature between Hawaiian and white members. -
He created a leper colony on molokai
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USA declines
he decides to make a reciprocity treaty with the USA, but they end up declining. -
Lot laid the corner stone for the st. andrews cathredral
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Natural disasters.
All over the bis island, natural disasters distoryed everything. Lot took it upon himself to help out those in need. -
Lot created Kamehameha day in honor of his ancestors.
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He became very ill and bed ridden
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bernice declines
He named Bernice Pauahi Bishop as his heir on his death bed, but she declined. -
Ended reign/died
died at age 42 in Honululu. His burial took place at the royal mausoleam of Hawaii.