Prompt 8

Sugarcane production finally began in 1875.


Sugar and Pineapples brought immigrants to Hawaii because the labor was needed to produce each product.


The first to arrive were the Chinese, followed by the Portugese, Puerto Rican, Japanese, and Korean, doubling the population of Hawaii in 20 years. However, the workers were paid a mere 24 cents an hour for their arduous labor. They lived in cramped unhealthy workhouses, and with the $3 a month they recieved, they had to buy from a plantation store that took they're money back into the company coffers. They spent 10 hours, sometimes 12, a day hiking in the fields with only a bowl of rise on their bellies. Each labor camp was racially divided. The work was strenuous and many a worker came home with cuts, bruises and bliters on top of blisters. Men were forced to work bent over for 10 hours day after day. The workers were treated very very unfairly.


Sanford Dole's father, Daniel, was a missionary who started the Punahuo School.


Sanford Doles political views were in favor of annexation.


The 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawai'i stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, and disenfranchised all Asians and poor citizens while generally empowering rich citizens, including American, European and native Hawaiian elites. It is now widely known as the Bayonet Constitution, a nickname given to it by its opponents because of the threat of force used to gain Kalākaua's cooperation.


Lorrin Thurston was the prnicple leader in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarch system, and the eventuall annexation of the republic into the United States.


The Committee of Safety was a 13 member council that planned to over throw the Kingdom of Hawaii, the groups unofficial advisor was Thurston, the publisher of the Honolulu Adviser.


Sanford Dole became the President of the Republic of Hawaii on July 4, 1894.


Hawaii was annexed in 1898, under President McKinley's adminisration.


Under the territory of Hawaii, Dole's new position was Governor of the Territory.


James Dole is Sanford Dole's cousin.


James Dole bought the island of Lana'i and converted it into a huge pineapple plantation.


One major connection between the missions, business, and Americanization of Hawaii was that Hawaiian League. This secret league of businessmen or planters with US or missionary ties pledged their lives, businesses and honor to the goal of creating decent and honest governement in Hawaii.