Introduction
In 1830 there were 100 to 120,000 thousand Māori and 2000 Europeans living in New Zealand. The behaviour of the Whalers, the Missionaries’ desire to help protect Māori rights and the Musket Wars were reasons that a treaty was needed. The Declaration of Independence was another contributing factor to the need for a treaty.
Lawless Behaviour
One reason that a treaty was needed was the lawless behaviour of some of the British Settlers like whalers. One of the reasons they needed a treaty was the issue of being drunk, causing lots of fights, and a lot of prostitutes and diseases. All of this was giving New Zealand a really bad name and that’s why a treaty was needed
Maori Right & The Missionaries
Another reason that a treaty was needed was to protect Māori rights. One group that felt strongly about this was the missionaries. The missionaries weren’t bad people. This is important because the missionaries could easily turned on the Maori and killed heaps of Maori people. The Missionaries were good people overall.
Musket wars
Another reason that a treaty was needed was the Musket Wars. In this paragraph, I am trying to prove that musket trading was a bad idea. This was a very idea because 20,000 Maori’s were killed and they would trade large quantities of food and flax. So they would lose more than gain. This overall was a very bad idea.
Paragraph Four (The Slam Dunk)
The final reason that a treaty was needed was the existence of the Declaration of Independence.
One of the reasons why the declaration of independence signed is to have protection by the British because so many other countries like France, Australia would come over to New Zealand and mess with New Zealand’s Property. And New Zealand was only to trade with the British and no other countries. And another reason was to allow British residence to live all over New Zeeland, North and south island.
Conclusion (Robust Conclusion)
In conclusion, a treaty was needed to stop all these types of conflicts and problems and to follow these rules and have huge problems. Overall we needed treaties to stop all these little or big problems.
Otherwise, we would have had a huge problem in our country in the future.
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