HWST107 Study Guide Units 6-7 Flashcards
Prior to 1778
Hawaiian genealogies extend back 2,000 years
Prior to 1778
Spanish arrive in Hawaiʻi
1778
Population 1,000,000
1778
Captain Cook lands at Waimea, Kauaʻi
1778
Introduction of STD’s to HawaiʻI - Gonorrhea, syphilis and tuberculosis by 1816 Russian ships note advanced cases of STD’s affecting Hawaiians
1804
Bubonic Plague
1810
Kamehameha unites the Hawaiian Archipelago under his rule
1819
Kamehameha dies his son Liholiho becomes Mōʻī
1819
Kapu system abolished one month after Liholiho becomes king
1824
Liholiho dies five years after being king of measles in London
1824
Kauikeaouli becomes Mōʻī at age 11, with Kaʻahumanu as regent
1820
First American missionaries arrive in Hawaiʻi
1823
Missionary estimate population at 150,000
1826
Influenza
1832
Whooping Cough
1834
Approximately 92 percent of Hawaiian adults are literate
1839
The French Captain Laplace threatens to bombard Hawaiʻi unless they pay him $20,000, place France on most favored status, allowed Catholic priest into Hawaiʻi, and no duty on French wines and brandy
1840
Hawaiʻi considered a Christian nation and the ABCFM begins to withdraw financial support of its missionaries in Hawaiʻi
1840
Leprosy
1842
United States recognizes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
1843
Lord George Paulet demands $100,000 for alleged insults to British subjects then seizes Hawaiʻi for England not withstanding a 1836 treaty with England. Six months later England sends Admiral Thomas to reinstate the lawful Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. England and France recognize Hawaiʻi as an independent nation
1848
Measles, Whooping Cough & Influenza
1848
Population 88,000
1849
The French Admiral Louis Tremain arrived in Honolulu making more demands on the King and lands French troops taking possession of the Fort of Honolulu and then destroyed coastal cannons and other weapons
1853
population 80,000
1854
Kauikeaouli dies and is succeeded by Alexander Liholiho Kamehameha IV
1863
Liholiho dies and Lot Kapuaiwa, Kamehameha V, becomes Mōʻī
1865
The Hansen’s disease colony is established on Kalaupapa
1872
Lot Kapuaiwa, Kamehameha V dies without naming an heir William Lunalilo is elected King
1874
population 51,000
February 1874
Lunalilo dies and David Kalākaua backed by American business men is elected. People riot over the election results
February 1874
Kalākaua’s first act as king was to support the reciprocity treaty allowing sugar into U.S. without import tax in return for use of Pearl Harbor
1882
ʻIolani Palace completed. It had electricity and telephone even before the White House or Buckingham Palace
1887
“Bayonet Constitution” forced on King Kalākaua by all white Hawaiian League, stripping the power of the sovereign and Kanaka Maoli (natives) of their land rights
1888
Whooping Cough
1889
Robert Wilcox rebellion fails to overturn Bayonet Constitution
1890
Diptheria
1890
55,000 Asian laborers imported to Hawaiʻi by sugar planters
1891
King Kalākaua dies in San Francisco; Lydia Kamakaʻeha becomes Queen Liliʻuokalani
1893
Queen Liliʻuokalani is deposed by a conspiracy of American businessmen with support of United States armed forces
1893
President Cleveland sends a message to Congress calling for the restoration of Queen Liliʻuokalani as sovereign after a 6 month investigation by Senator James Blount
1893
population 40,000
4 July 1984
The Provisional Government changes their name to the Republic of Hawaiʻi. They do not allow Hawaiians to vote without swearing an oath to their new regime.
January 1895
Unsucessful attempt by Royalists led by Wilcox to restore the Queen Liliʻuokalani. She is then tried for treason and imprisoned in the ʻIolani Palace for 6 months
1896
Hawaiian language banned from private and public schools
6 December 1897
Representatives carry 38,000 signatures in a petition against the annexaction treaty to Washington
15 January 1898
The explosion sinks the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba
February 1898
Annexation treaty is defeated in the U.S. Senate. 46 to 58.
20 April 1898
US declares war on Spain (the Spanish-American war)
7 July 1898
President McKinley signs illegal resolution to annex Hawaiʻi
30 April 1900
Hawaiʻi becomes territory of the United States through the Organic Act imposed on Hawaiʻi.
“Models” of the Akaka Bill (Self-Determination)
1) establish an office within the US Department of the Interior to focus on native Hawaiian issues and serve as a liaison agency between native Hawaiians and the federal government (operate as a state within a state) 2) secession from the United States 3) achieve independent status under international law
“Moose” Lui (Hawaiian Movement)
honorary mayor of Kalama Valley & his wife had their names on Hawaiian Homes trust land list in 1952
“Soli” Niheu (Hawaiian Movement)
formed Kokua Kalama Committee (KKC) in 1970
Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell (1897 Petitions…)
President of Hui Aloha ʻĀina for Women; went with Emma Aima Nawahī to Hilo on the Kinau to collect signatures
Admiral Richard Thomas (Synopsis)
brought instructions from London to restore sovereignty of Hawaiian people after George Paulet took over the kingdom
Akaka Bills (Self-Determination)
passage of either bill would lay the foundation for a nation-within-a-nation model of self-goverance; domestic-dependent nation; they are about recognition of the nation’s first people and to encourage the perpetuation of their culture & traditions
Ala Wai Canal (Taking Waikiki)
built in 1922-1927; 3 miles long & 25 feet deep & 250 feet wide; bid was awarded to Dillingham’s Dredging company; he was allowed to sell the extra filler material he dredged up
Albert Akana (Broken Promise)
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands agency project manager on the Big Island was jumped past more than 100 people on the list in 1965 to get a 300 acre ranch; picked as a “role model” rancher to other Hawaiians
Baltazar Kitalong (Belau)
leading member of “Khalreng” a movement that campaigned strongly against proposed military bases in Belau was murdered on 22 Sep 1981
Belau
nation in debt for 16 megawatt power plant built for $32 million; 1st mini revolution on 8 Sep 1981; 2nd mini revolution in early July 1987
Belau constitution
1979 Constitution made the country the world’s first nuclear free country; people voted 10 times about issue of a nuclear free Constitution; 19 July 1987 constitution allowed nuclear weapons
Benjamin Franklin Dillingham (Taking Waikiki)
owned Pacific Hardware Company to sell products to sugar plantations; founded Oahu Railway & Land Company; known as “Mr. Hawaii”; assumed control of a dredging company & needed contracts from the military for dredging work so he did a lot of entertaining of generals & other military; led the Civic Sanitation Committee & when there was an outbreak of yellow fever his company was the only one available to conduct the massive operation of ridding the city of mosquitos; combined his railroad & dredging company into Dilco
CANZUS group (UN)
Canada, New Zealand, & United States were all politically opposed to the Declaration
Captain Cook (An Act of War)
arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1778 with ships Resolution & Discovery. His men brought diseases to the Hawaiian people
Captain G. Wiltse (An Act of War & Synopsis)
US Naval commander of the U.S.S. Boston that was ordered to land in Honolulu to aid in “protection of American life and property” on 16 January 1893
Captain Laplace (Synopsis)
French captain that threatened war in 1839 unless $20,000 bond paid and France given most favored nation status; France was upset over the French Catholic priests being expelled from the islands & the high duty that was placed upon French wines & brandy; American businessmen paid the $20,000 on behalf of the bankrupt Hawaiian government
Captain Thomas ap Catesby-Jones (Synopsis)
commanded the US warship The Peacock and demanded most favored nation status & US citizens would be protected from enemies while residing in Hawaii – treaty signed
Charles B. Wilson (An Act of War & Synopsis)
marshal of the Hawaiian kingdom; heard of the coup & proposed that 13 leaders of the Committee of Safety be arrested for treason - warrants weren’t approved because of their strong alliance with John L. Stevens; provided aid to the Queen in trying to stop the overthrow along with Samuel Nowlein (the captain of the Royal Household Guard)
Charles McCarthy (Taking Waikiki)
governor in 1918-1921 who had close ties to Dillingham
Charles Reed Bishop (Synopsis)
the first banker of the kingdom; convinced Kamehameha III that private land ownership would enhance prosperity & protection of sovereignty; sugar plantation business partner with William Little Lee; invited General Schofield to see Pearl Harbor for military use in exchange for no US import tax on sugar
Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii (Taking Waikiki)
modeled after Louisiana’s constitution; must swear allegiance to Republic; have $200 of land; be able to explain the constitution & be literate in English; Chinese & Japanese were excluded