Grabbing the cash means that colonizers mine colonized lands for natural resources but export all of the profits and the products to their home country. In 1835, the Koula plantation, established by William Hooper, began the looting phase of Hawaii’s colonization. In 1840s and 1850s, a series of legal actions called The Great Mahele redistributed land and expanded sugar plantations. Soon hundreds of thousands of people from Asia were brought in to work the sugar fields so that US plantation owners could profit. The sugar industry increased from 10 plantations in 1858 to 22 plantation operating in 1861. By the 1868, sugar exports from Hawaii had increased tenfold, with annual sugar exports of over 18 million pounds.
The raw deal refers to the exportation of crops to the United States. Producing crops for the United States left Hawaii with little for itself. Sugar cane from Hawaii was harvested for American consumers. The California gold rush of the 1840s impacted on the Hawaiian economy; it increased settlement on the west coast of the …show more content…
For several decades, the Chinese and Japanese were imported as a means of cheap labor. The imported labor worked for lower pay, thus relegating native Hawaiians to fields or factories and leaving them with little opportunity for growth or money for pursuing individual means of employment.
Drawing the line refers to combining cultures with little in common and creating division between in order to exercise control over them. In Hawaii native society was based on family organized into tribes or chiefdoms, where the necessities of live, such as land water, food and identity, were adequate for everyone to enjoy. Colonization changed that by exterminating the native way of life. In Hawaii, Asians were grouped with native Hawaiians and together these cultures were forced to work under United States
The raw deal refers to the exportation of crops to the United States. Producing crops for the United States left Hawaii with little for itself. Sugar cane from Hawaii was harvested for American consumers. The California gold rush of the 1840s impacted on the Hawaiian economy; it increased settlement on the west coast of the …show more content…
For several decades, the Chinese and Japanese were imported as a means of cheap labor. The imported labor worked for lower pay, thus relegating native Hawaiians to fields or factories and leaving them with little opportunity for growth or money for pursuing individual means of employment.
Drawing the line refers to combining cultures with little in common and creating division between in order to exercise control over them. In Hawaii native society was based on family organized into tribes or chiefdoms, where the necessities of live, such as land water, food and identity, were adequate for everyone to enjoy. Colonization changed that by exterminating the native way of life. In Hawaii, Asians were grouped with native Hawaiians and together these cultures were forced to work under United States