Hawaiian monarchy forces the Hawaiians to change

With the introduction of the western world, the Hawaiian islands began to adopt some of their ways, Hawaiian monarchy, being one of them.

Before the arrival of Captain Cook, the Hawaiian islands were never under the monarchy of a single person. Kamehameha I changed that in a hurry. Kamehameha was a man of extraordinary strength and limitless ambition.
He was a man who quickly recognized the change the white people had brought to his island and he shrewdly took advantage of the knowledge and technology he learned from Captain Cook and his men. He brilliantly put together this knowledge and used it to become the first king of first the big island and then the rest of the Hawaiian islands. By the time of Kamehameha's death in 1819, he had established a capital on Kailua Bay and enjoyed the final 9 years of his life in peace.

What Kamehameha did in his reign was extraordinary considering it had never been done before. The lasting effects of his reign forever changed Hawaii. Kamehameha shrewdly negotiated trade with the United States and Europe, which introduced the rest of the world to Hawaiian luxuries like sandalwood, sugar, pineapple, whales, and the beautiful land. Hawaiian leaders, however, took an active part in this new foreign investment and took a hefty profit, even though by 1893 foreigners controlled 90% of the lands of Hawaii. With the influx of outside investment, came new people, cultures, and races. When the Hawaiian monarchy of Queen Lili'uakalani came to an end in 1893, government corruption had decayed society so badly that everyone but the Hawaiian commoner was happy and making money.

When Kamehameha II took control of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1819, he ordered an end to the kapu (taboo) system, idol worship and abolished the Hawaiian religion altogether. Kamehameha II even went so far as to establish a joint monarchy with his wife Kamamlu. Several years after Kamehameha II death, the first missionaries arrived in Hawaii, at a time when most Hawaiians had completely abandoned their religion.

As Kamehameha III took over the Hawaiian monarchy, he proclaimed a first Constituition which also proclaimed a freedom of worship. He also went on to establish a fee-simple form of holding land, which had previously belonged to the king. This form of holding land enabled foreigners to hold title to Hawaiian property.

After a series of monarchies, Queen Lili'uokalani took control in 1891. She tried to bring back some of the power former rulers had, but she was quickly deposed in 1893, ending the reign of Hawaiian monarchs.

The end of the Hawaiian monarchy system brought about the annexation of the island chain into the United States.