Territorial Hawaiʻi
This law created the Territory of Hawaiʻi in 1900.
What is the Organic Act?
This crop dominated Hawaiʻi's economy during much of the Territorial Era.
What is sugar?
The Big Five were this type of organization. (Hint: What were the Big Five? Were they hotels? Were they schools? Were they banks? Were they businesses?)
What are powerful business corporations?
This aliʻi believed access to land was essential to the survival and well-being of Native Hawaiians.
Who is Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole?
Pearl Harbor was attacked on this date.
What is December 7, 1941?
Who is John Dominis Holt.
This group of businessmen and political leaders organized the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
Who is the Committee of Safety?
Plantation owners recruited immigrant laborers largely because Hawaiʻi faced this problem.
What is a labor shortage caused by disease and population decline?
The Big Five gained much of their early wealth and influence through this industry.
What is plantation agriculture?
This act was passed in 1921 to establish a homesteading program for Native Hawaiians.
What is the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act?
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi was placed under this form of military control.
What is martial law?
The Hawaiian Renaissance revitalized traditional music, hula, and this practice of traveling across the Pacific using ancestral knowledge.
What is voyaging?
These petitions demonstrated widespread Native Hawaiian opposition to annexation.
What are the Kūʻē Petitions?
Beginning in 1885, immigrants from this country arrived in Hawaiʻi in large numbers to work on plantations.
What is Japan?
his treaty increased the profitability of Hawaiʻi's sugar industry by allowing Hawaiian sugar to enter the United States duty-free.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act attempted to provide Native Hawaiians with access to this important resource.
What is land?
Under martial law, this institution controlled many aspects of civilian life in Hawaiʻi.
What is the military?
In this year, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi became the co-official language of Hawaiʻi at the Constitutional Convention.
What is 1978?
Hawaiʻi's location in the Pacific made the islands especially valuable to the United States for this reason.
What is its strategic military location?
This language developed among plantation workers from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
What is Pidgin?
These large water systems were constructed primarily to bring water to sugar plantations.
What are irrigation ditches?
This controversial 1930s case exposed racial inequality and injustice in Territorial Hawaiʻi.
What is the Massie Affair?
Many Japanese Americans from Hawaiʻi demonstrated their loyalty by serving in the 100th Battalion and this famous combat unit.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
The Hawaiian Renaissance demonstrated Native Hawaiian resilience by strengthening connections to language, culture, identity, and this.
What is ʻāina?
Becoming a U.S. Territory led to this major political change in Hawaiʻi. (Hint: the answer has to do with a shift in political power)
What is greater American political control?
Name ONE way plantation life continues to influence Hawaiʻi today.
What is...Pidgin, multicultural communities, local food, ethnic diversity, labor history, or cultural traditions.
The Big Five did not control only businesses. Their economic wealth also allowed them to influence this area of Hawaiian society.
What is politics or government?
The Massie Affair demonstrated that race and social status could influence this important political system.
What is the justice system?
On December 8, 1941, this island was sequestered (taken) by the U.S. Navy to be used as a live weapons training range.
What is Kahoʻolawe?
Complete the BIG IDEA: Hawaiʻi's history during these units reflects struggles over land, culture, labor, and ________.
What is political power?