Modern Hawaiian History

April 18, 2016

Define Oligarchy:

- A small group of people who govern - maintained control by putting strict property and literacy requirements into the constitution of the Republic of Hawaii.

1. Look up oligarchy and democracy in the glossary. How to they differ?

2. What does Lawrence Fuchs mean by the statement "Oligarchies are not necessarily more oppressive than democracies"?

3. Compare the literacy and property qualifications under the Republic of Hawaii and the Territory of Hawaii. How were people affected by the differences?

4. Look at the graph "Voters by Ethnic Group, Territory of Hawaii, 1902-1926." In 1902, as a result of changes in voter qualifications, which groups had the greatest voting power? The second greatest? The third? The fourth?

5. Of the three areas of political power created by the Organic Act, which might the oligarchy expect to control under the new voting rules?

Answers

1. Oligarchy is a small group of people who govern, democracy is when eligible memebers from each state govern a location. 

2. Fuchs means that democracies will tend to lash out more at minorities and other types of people, as opposed to an oligarchy where they don't. 

3. The territory required that you be 21 years old as opposed to the Republic where it's just 20. Territory says you need to have lived at least a year, Republic says a month. 

4. Hawaiian: 1st, Caucasian/White: 2nd, Portuguese: 3rd, Chinese: 4th.

5. They would most likely control the governor because what he/she may do is close to what people in an oligarchy do as well. 

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Q: Of the three political powers, which ones were controlled by the Home Rule Party in 1900?

A: Territorial Legislature and Delegacy

Q: Why were members of the oligarchy opposed to having Wilcox as the delegate to Congress?

A: Because Wilcox wanted to pass a law that meant clearing the Hawaiian homesteads

Q: Why was the Oligarchy alarmed at what was happening in the Territorial Legislature under the control of the Home Rule Party?

A: Because they wantede to pardon all prisoners, pay local young people to go the mainland schools, abolish vaccinations, and to license the Kahuna to practice medicine. 

April 18, 2016

Q: Read pages 133-136. What does the statement, "If you can't beat em' join em"mean?

A: That term means that if you can't beat the enemies of the United States, then you should enlist to do something about it.

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1. Why do you think the Republicans decided on Prince Kuhio as their candidate?

2. Why do you think Kuhio agreed to run on the Republican ticket rather than align himself with the Home Rule Party?

3. Compare the 1900 and 1902 election returns. How many votes did the Republican Party gain? What might have been the sources of this gain?

4. Speculate how Prince Kuhio was able to win the delegacy from popular Robert Wilcox. Why would voters, the majority of whom were Hawaiian, cast their ballots for Kuhio, candidate of the ogliarchy-dominated Republican Party, rather than for Hawaiian activist Robert Wilcox?

Answers

1. He had a very good repertoire of accomplishments and reputation, which made him very reputable, plus, he was very young so he could stay in the job for a long time. 

2. Kuhio chose the Republican party because that's what he always wanted to be in, plus, the Home Rule Party was already dying out. 

3. They gained 2,631 votes, the reason being because the Republican Party was starting to gain popularity.

4. Probably because Kuhio was a Hawaiian native and Robert Wilcox was white, regardless if he was a Hawaiian Activist or not. 

April 18, 2016

What was daily life like under Martial Law after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

• People had no civil rights what-so-ever because they were under military rule. The telephone calls and letters were censored, there was a curfew, and newspapers were very limited. 

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor had painful consequences for Nisei or first generation Japanese-Americans. Using the reading on pages 147-149, describe the events that took place after the attack. 

• After the attack, anyone of Japanese ancestry or Japanese decent were put in internment camps. Some would be sent to a camp in Hawaii and others would be sent to the mainland to be workers or whatever needed to be done.