One of the paramount impacts in Hawaiian history was the Great Mahele of 1848. The Mahele was a land division that was legislated by King Kamehameha III. The Mahele’s purpose was to supply Hawaiians with additional land. Moreover, the Mahele was to halt the foreigners from procuring control over Hawaii. Nevertheless, the foreigners ended up with the preponderance of the land (Cachola). The Mahele benefitted the foreigners because foreigners modified the land system into the one they preferred, abandoning the indigenous system of Hawaii, and foreigners earned an abundant amount of land for new companies (Menton and Tamura 116). A way in which the Mahele was favorable to the foreigners was because the foreigners were enabled to transmute the
