The Basics & Annexation
This 1900 act officially established a territorial government for the Hawaiian islands following their annexation.
What is the Organic Act?
Prior to the push for Americanization, this type of language mandate required all government business to be conducted in English.
What is the English-only mandate?
These trade taxes on sugar were lifted once Hawaiʻi was integrated into the American economic system.
What are tariffs?
The Organic Act officially changed Hawaiʻi's political designation to this type of U.S. entity.
What is a U.S. territory?
The Organic Act granted this official status to most people living on the islands.
What is U.S. citizenship?
This native language was explicitly banned from being spoken in schools, accelerating its suppression.
What is ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi?
These large agricultural entities, owned by Americans, no longer faced foreign trade barriers after annexation.
What are sugar plantations?
This emergency military power was allowed to be declared under the political framework of the Organic Act.
What is martial law?
This joint resolution was the third annexation attempt and the only one that successfully added Hawaiʻi as a U.S. territory.
What is the Newlands Resolution?
The removal of native lands combined with the language ban accelerated this overall cultural process among Native Hawaiians.
What is Americanization?
The institutionalized corporate plantation system became heavily dependent on this group of workers.
Who are imported immigrant workers?
This event in 1893 served as the initial illegal overthrow before official annexation in 1898 and the Organic Act in 1900.
What is the coup d'état of the Hawaiian Kingdom?
The Organic Act took away native lands belonging to the Hawaiian Kingdom and turned them over to this entity.
What is the newly formed government?
Changes to this specific public system were used to ban the Hawaiian language and promote American ideals.
What is the education system?
The Organic Act stripped Native Hawaiians of this fundamental economic right, tying the islands permanently to U.S. markets
What is land ownership?
According to the text, the Newlands Resolution added Hawaiʻi as a territory, but this subsequent 1900 act actually established its functional government.
What is the Organic Act?