Liliuokalani

Response to Question 1 In the pictorial, Miss Colombia’s School House (1894), shows the male figure representing Hawaii and the female figure representing Canada being excluded from the United States. It seems that the male figure representing Hawaii is disappointed that he is not allowed in, but the female figure representing Canada seems to look like she does not mind not being allowed in. I believe that the perceptions of the south are also included in the pictorial. An example of this would…

In 1835, Ladd & Co. is the first successful sugar plantation company in Hawaii and marked the beginning of the sugar industry. Ladd & Co. began their sugar company in Koloa, Kauai, in which they signed a lease with King Kamehameha III for a 980 acres of land. The Founders of Ladd & Co. wanted to fortune for the sugar that they created. “Sugar provided the Hawaiian Islands with a foundation, playing a key part in bringing the Islands into a cosmopolitan society.” Sugar became the dominant…

Though the island monarchy had been relatively successful under their reigning Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, the abundances of Pineapples attracted American Businessmen to imperialize the island to insure easy access to the tropical delicacy. In order to fulfill their economic agenda, American Business men portrayed the Queen to be an unfit ruler for…

tariffs are in the U.S. hands. This suggest the foreign policy was based on realism because the US gained Puerto Rico and were able to control Puerto Rico defense and tariffs . Another example is in Hawaii at the time Hawaii was ruled by queen Liliuokalani as a Monarchy and U.S. military overthrows the queen and annexed Hawaii, making it part of the United States as a territory in 1900. This relates to realism because the US kicked Hawaii queen out so they could have Hawaii as part of the US. In…

Queen Liliuokalani hated the movement toward colonization, she said, “I declare such a treaty to be an act of wrong toward the native and part-native people of Hawaii, an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violations of international rights… and, finally…

better conditioned economy. (US Trade Expansion, 1865-1915, 11/24/15) Hawaii interested America at first because of the sugar plantations it had. Hawaiian sugar had a higher price on it and it made a profit in America. The US advanced on Queen Liliuokalani and annexed Hawaii totaling the US into fifty states. (Hawaii…

America has not always the great country we have been lead to believe. Since the end of the civil war, racism against blacks grew greater and greater with every passing day making it harder for these people to live their lives. This leads to the unfair treatment of immigrants trying to find a new life in America after being pushed out of their countries by poverty, revolution, and starvation. These events happen with an incompetent government only interested in doing anything to benefit itself.…

Cuban sugar producers which resulted in Hawaii facing a severe economic depression. Planters in Hawaii plotted to make the islands a territory of the U.S. to get around the tariff but the monarch as well as leader of the native government, Queen Liliuokalani, still ruled…

The next analyzed for this study is the biography that was approved by Lili’uokalani’s Hanai daughter, Lydia, and written in 1982 by Helen G. Allen, The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917. Allen’s text builds upon the autobiography because it also utilizes diaries and other personal papers of Lili’uokalani and it expands of Lili’uokalani’s life past the end date of the autobiography. With that said, this biography must be strictly analyzed because Allen utilized sources…

The height of American imperialism showcased when United Sates waged the Spanish-American war. The war transpired between the countries of Spain and the United Sates and linked by historians to America’s imperialistic expansion concepts. The war was known as “A Splendid Little War”, due to the short duration it took for the United Sates to defeat the Spanish. The war ended with 1898 Treaty of Paris, which compelled the Spanish to abdicate claims of Cuba, and surrender the sovereignty of Puerto…