TimeLine to the Declaration of Independence NZ
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Updated: 16 May 2021
What happens when you give Maori and British people a pen and paper
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Created byFinn Steckler
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First ActionsThe Declaration of Independence is signed.
James Busby called the chiefs back for a meeting at Waitangi where he went the step further and bringing out the declaration.
By the end of the day, 34 Rangitira signed The Declaration of Independence of The United Tribes of New Zealand.
This was created for many reasons including, better land trade and settlement, clearer rules to Maori and British Settlers, and better trade throughout the whole country even to other places.Sealers, Whalers,
and Traders arrived
and met the Maori.
Sealers, Whalers, and Traders arrived in New Zealand, meeting the Maori.
They came in hundreds looking to exploit the local resource.The First Missionaries Arrived
The Missionaries are very religious people that came to New Zealand with 2 main tasks.
Christianisation of the Maori and keeping the British settlers with steady rules of law and order.A Timber Industry begins in the Northland
Skilled European tradesmen were needed to pick the correct trees and supervise milling while there were also Maori helping and taking the timber to where it needed to be.
By 1830 over 30 percent of the North Islands European male population was involved in the timber trade.
A lot were acting unlawful and causing trouble between British and Maori leading to more problems once again pushing for the declaration to be created and signed.Musket begins being traded
After the Europeans brought Muskets to New Zealand the weapons were used widely in Maori tribe wars causing stronger rivalries.
Over 20,000 people die from indirect and direct shots.
Tribes earned Muskets by having more production for pigs and potatoes, which served as currency.James Busby arrives in New Zealand
He arrived in 1833 on the boat, the HMS Imogene.
He became a British settler starting his long journey to the Declaration and then, later on, the Treaty of Waitangi.New Zealand
is given
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