what does hawaii have to offer?
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What does Hawaii have to offer?. Why Hawaii: Background. Location, location, location Missionaries Money interests Sugar trade – plantation owners white Americans Independent monarchy The native people. One early visitor described. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Why would the USA want Alaska? …
Acquiring Alaska
“Seward’s Folly” 1867 – S of S William Seward negotiated
a treaty with Russia 7 million in exchange for Alaska
This was an example of___________.
Taking Hawaii
One early visitor described... The ease with which the Hawaiians on their own land
can secure their food supply has undoubtably interfered with their social and industrial advancement. . . . [It] relieves the native from any struggle and unfits him for sustained competition with men from other lands. The fact that food is supplied by nature takes from the native all desire for the acquisition of more land. Today's food can be had for the picking, and tomorrow's as well. Instead of grasping all he can get, he divides with his neighbor, and confidently expects his neighbor to divide with him.
Nice, right…?
American Interests in Hawaii
American missionaries go to Hawaii to convert people
American businessmen buy land in Hawaii Sugar plantations
1875 treaty allows Hawaiian sugar to be sold “duty free” to USA
Americans build warehouses, railroads, stores, et cetera
What seems to have happened?
Americans start to control Hawaii 1887 King Kalakaua amends the
constitution gives voting rights to wealthy landowners
ONLY Gives USA naval base at Pearl Harbor
What has happened?
Hawaiian “Revival”
1890 McKinley Tariff = now there is a high duty on sugar
1891 Queen Lil takes over the thrown “Hawaii for Hawaiians” Gets rid of the bad
constitution
Americans Get Aggressive
• 1893, planter uprising overthrow Lil• The provisional government • Sanford Dole (President)
• marines stormed the islands• raised stars and stripes in Honolulu.
• 1894 ask Cleveland to annex• Cleveland refuses but does recognize government
The Road to Annexation
1897 McKinley becomes president
1898 Spanish-American War
1898 Hawaii is annexed by USA
What changes??William McKinley
How did America’s actions in Cuba compare to those in Hawaii
Do you think America’s actions in Hawaii were fair? Explain
Your Notes Class Notes
Why Hawaii? Background
How does the US take Hawaii?
How does it compare to the US taking Cuba?
Do you think America’s actions in Hawaii were fair?
Sanford Dole
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
“The New Temptation on the Mount: “ Behold all this I will give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” A “World- Wide Empire” including Hawaii and the Philippines, is offered on the horizon.