Pre-arrival 1500-1816 The exact date of the first people on the Hawaiian Islands is not known. Most scholars estimate the first Polynesians arrived about 1500. Peoples populating islands in Pacific where skilled sailors and frequently left home islands to look for undiscovered islands. Uninhabited islands held potential for new resources and expansion. Overpopulation was a real threat to survival.
Colony 1816-1898
Hawaii has became known of their sugar cultivation. Sugar became succeeded once Don Francisco de Paula Marin. He succeeded in producing sugar in 1819, which he then completed small-scale manufacture thereafter. The first plantation to hold a good size amount of sugar was laid out in 1825 in …show more content…
In the year 1898 Hawaii was annexed by president William Mckinley. From there Sanford B. Dole was made the first governor in Hawaii after the annexation. The annexation happened for many reason. One reason was because the farmer in Hawaii did not want to pay the tax on sugar. Although the farmers did not like the taxes that were on sugar, most of the Hawaiians were against Hawaii being annexed. This is because they felt like Hawaii should go back to it’s old government structure. Another reason why Hawaii was annexed in 1898 was because America needed to use Pearl Harbor as coaling station and a resting place during the Spanish-American War.
The day of Hawaii’s annexation marked the last day of the Chinese having certain rights on Hawaii. But when the American Chinese Exclusion Law was put into place the Chinese were revoked of these rights.Not only were the Chinese affected so were the Japanese affected by this law. Because it marked the day they were going to be discriminated against. A year after the annexation the Chinese place of living was a city. Some Chinese people got sick from the bubonic plague which caused the health department of Hawaii to burn down the plague
Colony 1816-1898
Hawaii has became known of their sugar cultivation. Sugar became succeeded once Don Francisco de Paula Marin. He succeeded in producing sugar in 1819, which he then completed small-scale manufacture thereafter. The first plantation to hold a good size amount of sugar was laid out in 1825 in …show more content…
In the year 1898 Hawaii was annexed by president William Mckinley. From there Sanford B. Dole was made the first governor in Hawaii after the annexation. The annexation happened for many reason. One reason was because the farmer in Hawaii did not want to pay the tax on sugar. Although the farmers did not like the taxes that were on sugar, most of the Hawaiians were against Hawaii being annexed. This is because they felt like Hawaii should go back to it’s old government structure. Another reason why Hawaii was annexed in 1898 was because America needed to use Pearl Harbor as coaling station and a resting place during the Spanish-American War.
The day of Hawaii’s annexation marked the last day of the Chinese having certain rights on Hawaii. But when the American Chinese Exclusion Law was put into place the Chinese were revoked of these rights.Not only were the Chinese affected so were the Japanese affected by this law. Because it marked the day they were going to be discriminated against. A year after the annexation the Chinese place of living was a city. Some Chinese people got sick from the bubonic plague which caused the health department of Hawaii to burn down the plague