The Unification of Hawaii had been going on. The movement was to consolidate power and create a kingdom that would be better able to deal with the emergence of the European Powers colonial drive in the Pacific. It was seen that for Hawaii to survive it would need to not only create a military that was better armed and trained. It would also need to create an educated populace and improve the healthcare of the islands so that European diseases would not lay havoc to the Polynesian
population.
population.