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The regent Kaahumanu, ruling in the name of her young charge, Kamehameha III, seized the opportunity and followed many of the strictures favored by the Calvinist Congregationalists, who were modernizing the country through the establishment of schools and the printing of books in the Hawaiian language (which they formulated in a written form for the first time).
Among Kaahumanu’s many reforms was the banning of prostitution, a ruling which led to pitched battles in whaling ports such as Lahaina.
But more immediately, it was when the kapu system of taboos broke down completely under the leadership of young King Kamehameha II (the first king’s son, Liholiho) and the regent, Kaahumanu (the favorite of the 21 wives of the first king).
Hawaii’s royalty resisted replacing the old religious system with newly-arrived Christianity until Kaahumanu was nursed back to health and converted by the wife of one of the first missionaries, Hiram Bingham.
The Calvinistic reforms were soon reversed when Kaahumanu died and Kamehameha III ascended to power in 1824.