The American Claim

Pritchard

• ________ was dismissed from his post and Fiji was now thrown in to a state of political turmoil.

price of cotton

The ________ had fallen and many settlers were in difficult.

Fiji

What was annexed in 1874? Answer with a single words or term.

• Cakobau

________ had ordered a ship from America and had hoped to use it to trade in bech- de- mer.

Source

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• It

Eg British) ________ established freedom of worship, freedom of speech, fair justice and no slavery.

A Cakobau

________ had no claim to be King of Fiji and that the land he offered was not his and was doing it solely to escape the American debt.

Britain

B. Britian should pay the American debt in return for eighty- two thousand hectares of land (200, 000 acres) ________ refused the offer.

B Britian

________ should pay the American debt in return for eighty- two thousand hectares of land (200, 000 acres)

• Ministers

________ spent money recklessly leaving the government in debt.

• Therefore Colonel WJSmythe

________ was sent to Fiji in 1859 to investigate on the situation on: A.

• Maafu

________ introduced a new system of land holding in which individual allotments were made to each adult male in return for taxes of coconut oil.

Methodists of New South Wales

The ________ were anxious to see law and order restored, the Wesleyan Missionary Society and the Aborigines Protection Society both strongly advised the British Government to accept the offer.

• That Cakobau

________ would plant an area of land in cotton for the company.

B Fiji

________ would not be useful as a port of call for ships going between Panama and Australia for it was a normal route.

• Williams

• The Fijians, rather than putting out the fire, looted the house. ________ claimed that he had lost properly valuing at £5000 pounds.

• He

________ could make his own laws, levy his own taxes and call meetings of chiefs when he wished.

 Fijians

The price of cotton had fallen and many settlers were in difficult. What were sentenced to work for the planters if they failed to pay a poll tax? Answer with a single words or term.

Pritchard

• ________ set up courts to resolve conflicts.

Fiji

 Economically ________ was in a bad way.

• Cakobau

________ approached the British consul, W.T.Prichard with an offer to cede Fiji to Great Britain.

• He

________ believed that Fiji could be important both as a naval base and as a centre of trade for ships going between Panama and Australia.

Pritchard

• ________ went to England to urge the British government to accept the offer.

Pritchard

• Cakobau approached the British consul, W.T.Prichard with an offer to cede Fiji to Great Britain. • ________ did not like the Tongan expansion in Fiji and also he was worried over the increased activity of German traders in the South Pacific.