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Territory of Hawaii

Coordinates: 21°18′N 157°48′W / 21.3°N 157.8°W / 21.3; -157.8

The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory[1][2][3] (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900,[4] until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S. state, the State of Hawaii. The Hawaii Admission Act specified that the State of Hawaii would not include Palmyra Island, the Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, and Johnston Atoll, which includes Johnston (or Kalama) Island and Sand Island.[5]

Territory of Hawaii
Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi
Organized incorporated territory of the United States
1900–1959

Main islands of the Territory of Hawaii
Anthem
"Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī"
CapitalHonolulu
History
Government
 • TypeOrganized incorporated territory
Governor 
• 1900–1903 (first)
Sanford B. Dole
• 1957–1959 (last)
William F. Quinn
Military Governor 
• 1941
LTG Walter Short
• 1941–1943
LTG Delos Emmons
• 1943–1944
LTG Robert C. Richardson Jr.
History 
August 12, 1898
April 30, 1900
December 7, 1941
• Martial law
1941–1944
1946–1958
August 21, 1959

On July 4, 1898, the United States Congress passed the Newlands Resolution authorizing the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Hawaii, and five weeks later, on August 12, Hawaii became a U.S. territory. In April 1900 Congress approved the Hawaiian Organic Act which organized the territory. United States Public Law 103-150 adopted in 1993, (informally known as the Apology Resolution), acknowledged that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States" and also "that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum".[6]

Hawaii's territorial history includes a period from 1941 to 1944, during World War II, when the islands were placed under martial law. Civilian government was dissolved and a military governor was appointed.

Background

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1900154,001—    
1910191,874+24.6%
1920255,881+33.4%
1930368,300+43.9%
1940422,770+14.8%
1950499,794+18.2%
Source: 1900–1950;[7]

Upon the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in January 1893, the Committee of Safety established the Provisional Government of Hawaii and set out to effect Hawaii's speedy annexation by the United States. A commission, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, was sent to Washington D.C. to negotiate an annexation treaty with President Benjamin Harrison. A delegation led by Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani also went to Washington to protest the overthrow and to lobby against annexation.

Harrison and the commission signed a treaty of annexation, which was sent to the U.S. Senate for approval. In March 1893, before the Senate could ratify it, Grover Cleveland took office. The new president was an anti-imperialist and strongly opposed to annexation. He withdrew the treaty from consideration, ordered a congressional investigation into the events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, and, after receiving the committee's first report, recommended the restoration of Liliʻuokalani as queen. This did not go over well from even his own party. Eventually a bi-partisan vote called for a "hands off" policy in regards to internal events in Hawaii. Further investigation by Congress led to the Morgan Report, which established that the actions of U.S. troops stationed in Hawaii during the coup had been completely neutral, and exonerated the U.S. military from any accusations of complicity with the overthrow.[8]

 
 
On August 12, 1898, the flag of Hawaii over ʻIolani Palace was lowered and the American flag was raised to signify annexation.

The provisional government convened a constitutional convention to establish the Republic of Hawaii. Thurston was urged to become the nation's first president but he was worried his brazen personality would damage the cause of annexation. The more conservative Sanford B. Dole, former Supreme Court Justice and friend of Queen Liliʻuokalani, was elected as the first and only president of the new regime.[9]

Hawaii's strategic location to support the Spanish–American War in the Philippines made it especially important to American interests, as argued by naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.[10] This and fears that the Empire of Japan would seize control of the islands provided momentum for the proponents of annexation. On July 4, 1898, the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution to provide for annexing of Hawaii to the United States. The resolution, commonly known as the Newlands Resolution (named after Congressman Francis Newlands), was signed into law three days later by President McKinley and came into effect on August 12, 1898. The Newlands Resolution states,

Whereas, the Government of the Republic of Hawaii having, in due form, signified its consent, in the manner provided by its constitution, to cede absolutely and without reserve to the United States of America, all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and also to cede and transfer to the United States, the absolute fee and ownership of all public, Government, or Crown lands, public buildings or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, together with every right and appurtenance thereunto appertaining: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said cession is accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and that the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies be, and they are hereby, annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and are subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and that all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned are vested in the United States of America.[11]

A formal ceremony marking the transfer of Hawaiian state sovereignty to the United States was held on August 12 on the steps of the ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu where the Hawaiian flag was lowered and the American flag was raised in its place.

 
Cartoon depicting the United States, its territories, and U.S. controlled regions as a classroom with belligerent Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba

The Resolution also provided for the establishment of a five-member commission to study what new laws were needed regarding the management and disposition of public lands in Hawaii, and to develop a frame of government for the islands. It was composed of: Sanford B. Dole (who, under the terms of the Resolution, retained the powers he previously exercised as President of Hawaii), Walter F. Frear (who likewise remained Judge of the Supreme Court of Hawaii), along with U.S. senators Shelby M. Cullom (R-Illinois) and John T. Morgan (D-Alabama), and representative Robert R. Hitt (R-Illinois). The commission's final report was submitted to Congress for a debate which lasted over a year. Many Southern congressmen and senators raised objections to establishing an elected territorial government in Hawaii, as doing so would open a pathway for the admission of a state with a "non-white" majority population at a time when strict "Jim Crow laws" mandating racial segregation in all public facilities were in force throughout the American South.

Organic Act

In early 1900 Congress passed an Act To provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, which was signed into law by President William McKinley on April 30, 1900. This organic act established the office of governor of Hawaii. Territorial governors were appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. They served for four years, unless removed sooner by the president.

Territorial governors

The organic act also created a bicameral Hawaii Territorial Legislature, consisting of a lower chamber House of Representatives and the upper chamber, the Senate, with its members elected by popular vote.

A Territorial Supreme Court of several justices/judges led by a Chief Justice, and additional appellate courts, also appointed by the President with the constitutional "advice and consent" of the Senate.

The Act also provided as with the other several Federal territories for a non-voting Delegate to the United States Congress, seated and with offices and the otherwise usual rights and privileges of a U.S. Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives

Congressional delegates

Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives was limited to a single, non-voting delegate:

Tourism

 
Matson Navigation Company advertised Hawaii as a tourist destination for the first time in the late 1890s.

Hawaii's tourism industry began in 1882 when Matson Navigation Company, founded by William Matson, began sailing vessels between San Francisco and Hawaii carrying goods. His transports encouraged him to purchase passenger steamships that would carry tourists hoping to vacation in Hawaii from the United States mainland.[12][13]

Matson's fleet included the SS Wilhelmina, rivaling the best passenger ships serving traditional Atlantic routes. With the boom in interest of Hawaiian vacations by America's wealthiest families in the late 1920s, Matson added the SS Mariposa, SS Monterey and SS Lurline (one of many Lurlines) to the fleet.

Matson Navigation Company operated two resort hotels in Honolulu near royal grounds. The first (and for a time the only) hotel on Waikīkī was the Moana Hotel which opened in 1901. As the first hotel in Waikīkī, the Moana Hotel was nicknamed the "First Lady of Waikīkī." The hotel gained international attention in 1920 when Edward, Prince of Wales and future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, stayed as a guest.

In 1927, the luxurious Royal Hawaiian Hotel, informally called the "Pink Palace of the Pacific," opened for business. It was the preferred Hawaii residence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he visited Hawaii during World War II.

Military bases

With annexation, the United States saw Hawaii as its most strategic military asset. McKinley and his successor U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt expanded the military presence in Hawaii and established several key bases, some still in use today. By 1906, the entire island of Oahu was being fortified at the coastlines with the construction of a "Ring of Steel," a series of gun batteries mounted on steel coastal walls. One of the few surviving batteries completed in 1911, Battery Randolph, is today the site of the U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii.[14][15]

List of Territorial Installations:

Industrial boom and the "Big Five"

As a territory of the United States, sugarcane plantations gained a new infusion of investment. By getting rid of tariffs imposed on sugarcane sent to the continental United States, planters had more money to spend on equipment, land and labor. Increased capital resulted in increased production. Five kingdom-era corporations benefited from annexation, becoming multimillion-dollar conglomerations: Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors (later Amfac), Theo H. Davies & Co. Together, the five companies dominated the Hawaiian economy as the "Big Five."[16]

Pineapples and Hawaii

James Dole, also known as the Pineapple King, arrived in Hawaii in 1899. He purchased land in Wahiawa and established the first pineapple plantation in Hawaii. Confident that canned pineapples could become a popular food export, Dole built a cannery near his first plantation in 1901. Hawaiian Pineapple Company, later renamed Dole Food Company, was born. With his profits soaring, Dole expanded and built a larger cannery in Iwilei near Honolulu Harbor in 1907. The Iwilei location made his main operations more accessible to labor. The cannery at Iwilei was in operation until 1991. Dole found himself in the midst of an economic boom industry. In response to growing pineapple demand in 1922, Dole purchased the entire island of Lanai and transformed the Hawaiian tropical low shrublands into the largest pineapple plantation in the world. For a long stretch of time, Lanai would produce 75% of the world's pineapple and become immortalized as the "Pineapple Island."[17]

By the 1930s, Hawaii became the pineapple capital of the world and pineapple production became its second largest industry. After World War II, there were a total of eight pineapple companies in Hawaii. Today pineapples are imported from Thailand and elsewhere; few are commercially grown in Hawaii.[18]

Race relations

One of the most prominent challenges territorial Hawaii had to face was race relations. Intermarriage was tolerated and even sought after. Many native women married immigrant men and joined their community.[19] By 1898, most of Hawaii's population was made up of plantation workers from China, Japan, the Philippines and Portugal. Their plantation experiences molded Hawaii to become a plantation culture. The Hawaiian Pidgin language was developed on the plantations so they all could understand each other. Buddhism and Shintoism grew to become large religions. Catholicism became Hawaii's largest Christian denomination.[20]

Massie Trial

Race relations in Hawaii took to the national spotlight on September 12, 1931 when Thalia Massie, a United States Navy officer's wife, got drunk and alleged that she was beaten and raped. That same night, the Honolulu Police Department stopped a car and detained five men, all plantation workers. Officers took the men to Massie's hospital bedroom where she identified them. Although evidence could not prove that the men were directly involved, national newspapers quickly ran stories about the brute locals on the prowl for white women in Hawaii. The jury in the initial trial failed to reach a verdict. One of the accused was afterwards severely beaten, while another, Joseph Kahahawai, was murdered. Police caught the Kahahawai killers: Massie's husband Thomas, mother Grace Fortescue, and two sailors. Famed criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow defended them. A jury of locals found them guilty and sentenced to hard labor for ten years. Outraged by the court's punishment, the territory's white leaders as well as 103 members of Congress signed a letter threatening to impose martial law over the territory. This pressured Governor Lawrence M. Judd to commute the sentences to an hour each in his executive chambers. Hawaii residents were shocked[21] and all of America reconsidered what they thought of Hawaii's racial diversity.[22] The term "local" (Hawaii's non-Caucasian population) was galvanized through the Massie trial[23]

Martial law

From 1941 to 1944, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II, Territorial Governors Joseph B. Pointdexter and Ingram M. Stainback stripped themselves of their administrative powers by declaring martial law.[24] With the territorial constitution suspended, the legislature and supreme court were also dissolved indefinitely. Military law was enforced on all residents of Hawaii. The formation of the military government was mostly done by Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Green of the U.S Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, who became Military Attorney General. General Walter Short appointed himself military governor December 7, 1941. He assumed control of Hawaii and governed from ʻIolani Palace, which was quickly barricaded and fitted with trenches. He was relieved December 17 and charged with dereliction of duty, accused of making poor preparations in case of attack before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Under martial law, every facet of Hawaiian life was under the control of the military governor. His government fingerprinted all residents over the age of six, imposed blackouts and curfews, rationed food and gasoline, censored the news and media, censored all mail, prohibited alcohol, assigned business hours, and administered traffic and special garbage collection. The military governor's laws were called General Orders. Violations meant punishment without appeal by military tribunals.

Anthony, the shadow Attorney General of the period, provides different information. The "aged and weak"[25] Poindexter (sic), an appointed Democrat, was variously misled into surrendering his powers. Anthony does not mention fingerprinting; corroborates gasoline rationing but not food (the latter unlike the mainland); and disproves a liquor ban by showing how the military gained handsome profits by liquor permits and fees.

The military government instituted employment stasis by General Order No. 91 (no leaving an employer without a letter of good standing); and the banning of courts that required witnesses and juries. Traffic violations were said to have netted prison terms[26] and the military courts evidenced bias against civilians. There ensued a turf battle between the federal Departments of War, Justice and Interior, in which the middle one played a mediating or flip-flopping role. Indeed, it appeared War if not the Pacific Command was operating autonomously.[27]

The Glockner and Seifert cases, actually two detained, naturalized Germans, tested the military's suspension of habeas corpus. In the second year of martial law, August 1943, U.S. District Judge Metzger subpoenaed General Richardson as to why these two were held without charges. The General, according to General Order No. 31, could have had the server arrested for bringing charges against a military person, but instead had the Marshal manhandled so as to evade summons.[28] The prisoners were released outside of Hawaii, avoiding the implicated fall of military power.

List of Military Governors:

Democratic Revolution of 1954

The Democratic Revolution of 1954 was a nonviolent revolution consisting of general strikes, protests, and other acts of civil disobedience. The Revolution culminated in the territorial elections of 1954 where the reign of the Hawaii Republican Party in the legislature came to an abrupt end, as they were voted out of office to be replaced by members of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Hawaii 7

During the years leading up to the ousting of the Republican Party, Cold War fears brewed and the U.S. was in the middle of the Second Red Scare. The FBI employed the Smith Act toward the ILWU and Communist Party of Hawaii, arresting those who would become known as the Hawaii 7 on August 28, 1951, in synchronized raids at 6:30 that morning. They were convicted in a two-year-long trial. The Hawaii 7 were eventually released in 1958.[29][30]

Statehood

The first Congressional bill for Hawaii statehood was proposed in 1919 by Kuhio Kalanianaole,[31] and was based upon the argument that World War I had proved Hawaii’s loyalty.[32] It was ignored, and proposals for Hawaii statehood were forgotten during the 1920s because the archipelago’s rulers believed that sugar planters’ interests would be better served if Hawaii remained a territory.[33] Following the Jones-Costigan Act, another statehood bill was introduced to the House in May 1935 by Samuel Wilder King but it did not come to be voted on, largely because FDR himself strongly opposed Hawaii statehood,[34] while “Solid South” Democrats who could not accept non-white Congressmen controlled all the committees.[35]

Hawaii resurrected the campaign in 1940 by placing the statehood question on the ballot. Two-thirds of the electorate in the territory voted in favor of joining the Union.[36] After World War II, the call for statehood was repeated with even larger support, even from some mainland states. The reasons for the support of statehood were clear:

  • Hawaii wanted the ability to elect its own governor
  • Hawaii wanted the ability to elect the president
  • Hawaii wanted an end to taxation without voting representation in Congress
  • Hawaii suffered the first blow of the war
  • Hawaii’s non-white ethnic populations, especially the Japanese, proved their loyalty by having served on the European frontlines
  • Hawaii consisted of 90% United States citizens, most born within the U.S.
 
All islands voted at least 93 percent in favor of Admission acts. Ballot (inset) and referendum results for the Admission Act of 1959.

A former officer of the Honolulu Police Department, John A. Burns, was elected Hawaii’s delegate to Congress in 1956.[37] A Democrat, Burns won without the white vote but rather with the overwhelming support of Japanese and Filipinos in Hawaii. His election proved pivotal to the statehood movement. Upon arriving in Washington, D.C., Burns began making key political maneuvers by winning over allies among Congressional leaders and state governors. Burns’ most important accomplishment was convincing Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) that Hawaii was ready to become a state, despite the continuing opposition of such Deep Southerners as James Eastland[38] and John Sparkman.

In March 1959, both houses of Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. On June 27, 1959, a plebiscite was held asking Hawaii residents to vote on accepting the statehood bill. The plebiscite passed overwhelmingly, with 94.3% voting in favor.[39] On August 21, church bells throughout Honolulu were rung upon the proclamation that Hawaii was finally a US state.

See also

References

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  3. ^ https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-13.pdf (U.S. Census Bureau, 2003, page III-1)
  4. ^ 31 Stat. 141
  5. ^ "An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union". Hawaii State Legislature. March 18, 1959.
  6. ^ "Public Law 103-150 - Wikisource, the free online library".
  7. ^ Forstall, Richard L. (ed.). Population of the States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990 (PDF) (Report). United States Census Bureau. pp. 2–3. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  8. ^ Niklaus R. Schweizer, His Hawaiian Excellency: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the Annexation of Hawaii (1994).
  9. ^ Helena G. Allen, Sanford Ballard Dole: Hawaii's Only President, 1844–1926 (1988)
  10. ^ Karsten, Peter (1971), "The Nature of "Influence": Roosevelt, Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power", American Quarterly, 23 (4): 585–600, doi:10.2307/2711707, JSTOR 2711707, OCLC 5545561348
  11. ^ 30 Stat. 750
  12. ^ Christine Skwiot, The purposes of paradise: US tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawai'i (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
  13. ^ James Mak, "Creating 'Paradise of the Pacific': How Tourism Began in Hawaii" (2015) online
  14. ^ Dan Cragg, Guide to military installations (U of Illinois Press, 2000).
  15. ^ Bertrand M. Roehner, "Relations Between US Military Forces and the Population of Hawaii" Laboratoire de physique théorique et hautes énergies (2014). online
  16. ^ Julia Flynn Siler (2012). Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure. p. 292. ISBN 9780802194886.
  17. ^ Helena G. Allen, Sanford Ballard Dole: Hawaii's Only President, 1844-1926 (1988).
  18. ^ Duane P. Bartholomew, Richard A. Hawkins, and Johnny A. Lopez. "Hawaii pineapple: the rise and fall of an industry." HortScience 47#10 (2012): 1390-1398. online
  19. ^ Margaret A. Parkman and Jack Sawyer. "Dimensions of ethnic intermarriage in Hawaii." American Sociological Review (1967): 593-607. in JSTOR
  20. ^ Lawrence H. Fuchs, Hawaii Pono: 'Hawaii the Excellent': An Ethnic and Political History (1961), pp 83. 110.
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  24. ^ Robinson, Greg. Interview November 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine about his book, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. CUP. n.d. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
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  39. ^ . archive.lingle.hawaii.gov. State of Hawaii. March 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 21, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2014. On June 27, 1959, a plebiscite was held to allow Hawai`i residents to ratify the congressional vote for statehood. The 'yes for statehood' garnered 94.3 percent (132,773 votes) while the 'no' ballots totaled 5.7 percent (7,971 votes).

Further reading

Surveys

  • Craig, Robert D. Historical dictionary of Honolulu and Hawaiʻi (Scarecrow Press, 1998).
  • Daws, Gavan (1968). Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-0324-8.
  • Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: 'Hawaii the Excellent': An Ethnic and Political History.(1961).
  • Haley, James L. Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii (St. Martin's Press, 2014).
  • Kuykendall, Ralph Simpson, and Arthur Grove Day. Hawaii: a history, from Polynesian kingdom to American state (Prentice Hall, 1961).
  • Wyndette, Olive. Islands of Destiny: A History of Hawaii (1968).

Specialty studies

  • Allen, Helena G. Sanford Ballard Dole: Hawaii's Only President, 1844-1926 (1988).
  • Bartholomew, Duane P., Richard A. Hawkins, and Johnny A. Lopez. "Hawaii pineapple: the rise and fall of an industry." HortScience 47#10 (2012): 1390-1398. online
  • Beechert, Edward D. Working in Hawaii: A Labor History (U of Hawaii Press, 1985) 401pp
  • Brown, DeSoto and Anne Ellett. Hawaii goes to war: life in Hawaii from Pearl Harbor to peace (1989).
  • Chapin, Helen. Shaping history: The role of newspapers in Hawai'i (University of Hawaii Press, 1996).
  • Forbes, David W. Encounters with paradise: views of Hawaii and its people, 1778-1941 (Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992).
  • Hartwell, Alfred S. The Organization of a Territorial Government for Hawaii. The Yale Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, 1899, pp. 107–113. JSTOR
  • Hawkins, Richard A. "James D. Dole and the 1932 Failure of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company," The Hawaiian Journal of History (2007) vol. 41, pp. 149–170.
  • Imai, Shiho. Creating the Nisei Market: Race & Citizenship in Hawai'i's Japanese American Consumer Culture (2010)
  • Jung, Moon-Kie. Reworking Race: the making of Hawaii's interracial labor movement (Columbia University Press, 2006).
  • MacLennan, Carol A. Sovereign Sugar, Industry and Environment in Hawaii (2014).
  • Melendy, Howard Brett, and Rhoda E.A. Hackler. Hawaii, America's Sugar Territory, 1898-1959 (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
  • Melendy, Howard Brett. Walter Francis Dillingham, 1875-1963: Hawaiian Entrepreneur and Statesman (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996).
  • Melendy, H. Brett. "The Controversial Appointment of Lucius Eugene Pinkham, Hawaii's First Democratic Governor," Hawaiian Journal of History (1983(, Vol. 17, pp 185–208.
  • Parkman, Margaret A., and Jack Sawyer. "Dimensions of ethnic intermarriage in Hawaii." American Sociological Review (1967): 593-607. JSTOR
  • Poblete, JoAnne. Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai‘i (University of Illinois Press, 2014).
  • Rohrer, Judy. Haoles in Hawai'i" (2010) 124pp; scholarly survey
  • Sumida, Stephen H. And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai'i (University of Washington Press, 2015).
  • Williams Jr., Ronald. "Race, Power, and the Dilemma of Democracy: Hawaii's First Territorial Legislature, 1901." Hawaiian Journal of History (2015) 49#1 pp 1–45.
  • Whitehead, John S. Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai`i, and the Battle for Statehood (2004).

Primary sources

  • Thomas H. Green, The Papers of Major General Thomas H. Green, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army, University Publications of America, 2001

External links

  • Hawaii Army Museum Society
  • Morgan Report
  • Congressional Debates On Hawaiian Organic Act ... Matters Concerning the Hawaiian Islands in the 56th Congress, First Session, December 4, 1899 – June 7, 1900. Photostatic Reproductions from the Congressional Record, Vol. 33, Parts 1–8.

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Annexation of HawaiiAugust 12 1898 Hawaiian Organic ActApril 30 1900 Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7 1941 Martial law1941 1944 Revolution of 19541946 1958 Hawaii Admission ActAugust 21 1959Preceded by Succeeded byRepublic of Hawaii State of HawaiiPalmyra AtollOn July 4 1898 the United States Congress passed the Newlands Resolution authorizing the U S annexation of the Republic of Hawaii and five weeks later on August 12 Hawaii became a U S territory In April 1900 Congress approved the Hawaiian Organic Act which organized the territory United States Public Law 103 150 adopted in 1993 informally known as the Apology Resolution acknowledged that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and also that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands either through the Kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum 6 Hawaii s territorial history includes a period from 1941 to 1944 during World War II when the islands were placed under martial law Civilian government was dissolved and a military governor was appointed Contents 1 Background 2 Organic Act 2 1 Territorial governors 2 2 Congressional delegates 3 Tourism 4 Military bases 5 Industrial boom and the Big Five 6 Pineapples and Hawaii 7 Race relations 7 1 Massie Trial 8 Martial law 9 Democratic Revolution of 1954 10 Hawaii 7 11 Statehood 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 14 1 Surveys 14 2 Specialty studies 14 3 Primary sources 15 External linksBackground EditHistorical populationYearPop 1900154 001 1910191 874 24 6 1920255 881 33 4 1930368 300 43 9 1940422 770 14 8 1950499 794 18 2 Source 1900 1950 7 Upon the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in January 1893 the Committee of Safety established the Provisional Government of Hawaii and set out to effect Hawaii s speedy annexation by the United States A commission led by Lorrin A Thurston was sent to Washington D C to negotiate an annexation treaty with President Benjamin Harrison A delegation led by Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani also went to Washington to protest the overthrow and to lobby against annexation Harrison and the commission signed a treaty of annexation which was sent to the U S Senate for approval In March 1893 before the Senate could ratify it Grover Cleveland took office The new president was an anti imperialist and strongly opposed to annexation He withdrew the treaty from consideration ordered a congressional investigation into the events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and after receiving the committee s first report recommended the restoration of Liliʻuokalani as queen This did not go over well from even his own party Eventually a bi partisan vote called for a hands off policy in regards to internal events in Hawaii Further investigation by Congress led to the Morgan Report which established that the actions of U S troops stationed in Hawaii during the coup had been completely neutral and exonerated the U S military from any accusations of complicity with the overthrow 8 On August 12 1898 the flag of Hawaii over ʻIolani Palace was lowered and the American flag was raised to signify annexation The provisional government convened a constitutional convention to establish the Republic of Hawaii Thurston was urged to become the nation s first president but he was worried his brazen personality would damage the cause of annexation The more conservative Sanford B Dole former Supreme Court Justice and friend of Queen Liliʻuokalani was elected as the first and only president of the new regime 9 Hawaii s strategic location to support the Spanish American War in the Philippines made it especially important to American interests as argued by naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan 10 This and fears that the Empire of Japan would seize control of the islands provided momentum for the proponents of annexation On July 4 1898 the U S Congress passed a joint resolution to provide for annexing of Hawaii to the United States The resolution commonly known as the Newlands Resolution named after Congressman Francis Newlands was signed into law three days later by President McKinley and came into effect on August 12 1898 The Newlands Resolution states Whereas the Government of the Republic of Hawaii having in due form signified its consent in the manner provided by its constitution to cede absolutely and without reserve to the United States of America all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies and also to cede and transfer to the United States the absolute fee and ownership of all public Government or Crown lands public buildings or edifices ports harbors military equipment and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands together with every right and appurtenance thereunto appertaining Therefore Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That said cession is accepted ratified and confirmed and that the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies be and they are hereby annexed as a part of the territory of the United States and are subject to the sovereign dominion thereof and that all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned are vested in the United States of America 11 A formal ceremony marking the transfer of Hawaiian state sovereignty to the United States was held on August 12 on the steps of the ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu where the Hawaiian flag was lowered and the American flag was raised in its place Cartoon depicting the United States its territories and U S controlled regions as a classroom with belligerent Philippines Hawaii Puerto Rico and Cuba The Resolution also provided for the establishment of a five member commission to study what new laws were needed regarding the management and disposition of public lands in Hawaii and to develop a frame of government for the islands It was composed of Sanford B Dole who under the terms of the Resolution retained the powers he previously exercised as President of Hawaii Walter F Frear who likewise remained Judge of the Supreme Court of Hawaii along with U S senators Shelby M Cullom R Illinois and John T Morgan D Alabama and representative Robert R Hitt R Illinois The commission s final report was submitted to Congress for a debate which lasted over a year Many Southern congressmen and senators raised objections to establishing an elected territorial government in Hawaii as doing so would open a pathway for the admission of a state with a non white majority population at a time when strict Jim Crow laws mandating racial segregation in all public facilities were in force throughout the American South Organic Act EditIn early 1900 Congress passed an Act To provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii which was signed into law by President William McKinley on April 30 1900 This organic act established the office of governor of Hawaii Territorial governors were appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the U S Senate They served for four years unless removed sooner by the president Territorial governors Edit Sanford B Dole Republican 1900 1903 George R Carter Republican 1903 1907 Walter F Frear Republican 1907 1913 Lucius E Pinkham Democrat 1913 1918 Charles J McCarthy Democrat 1918 1921 Wallace R Farrington Republican 1921 1929 Lawrence M Judd Republican 1929 1934 Joseph B Poindexter Democrat 1934 1942 Ingram M Stainback Democrat 1942 1951 Oren E Long Democrat 1951 1953 Samuel Wilder King Republican 1953 1957 William F Quinn Republican 1957 1959 The organic act also created a bicameral Hawaii Territorial Legislature consisting of a lower chamber House of Representatives and the upper chamber the Senate with its members elected by popular vote A Territorial Supreme Court of several justices judges led by a Chief Justice and additional appellate courts also appointed by the President with the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate The Act also provided as with the other several Federal territories for a non voting Delegate to the United States Congress seated and with offices and the otherwise usual rights and privileges of a U S Representative in the U S House of Representatives Congressional delegates Edit See also Hawaii Territory s at large congressional district Representation in the U S House of Representatives was limited to a single non voting delegate Robert William Wilcox 1900 1903 Jonah Kuhiō Kalanianaʻole 1903 1922 Henry Alexander Baldwin 1922 William Paul Jarrett 1923 1927 Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston 1927 1933 Lincoln Loy McCandless 1933 1935 Samuel Wilder King 1935 1943 Joseph Rider Farrington 1943 1954 Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington 1954 1957 John Anthony Burns 1957 1959 Tourism Edit Matson Navigation Company advertised Hawaii as a tourist destination for the first time in the late 1890s Hawaii s tourism industry began in 1882 when Matson Navigation Company founded by William Matson began sailing vessels between San Francisco and Hawaii carrying goods His transports encouraged him to purchase passenger steamships that would carry tourists hoping to vacation in Hawaii from the United States mainland 12 13 Matson s fleet included the SS Wilhelmina rivaling the best passenger ships serving traditional Atlantic routes With the boom in interest of Hawaiian vacations by America s wealthiest families in the late 1920s Matson added the SS Mariposa SS Monterey and SS Lurline one of many Lurlines to the fleet Matson Navigation Company operated two resort hotels in Honolulu near royal grounds The first and for a time the only hotel on Waikiki was the Moana Hotel which opened in 1901 As the first hotel in Waikiki the Moana Hotel was nicknamed the First Lady of Waikiki The hotel gained international attention in 1920 when Edward Prince of Wales and future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom stayed as a guest In 1927 the luxurious Royal Hawaiian Hotel informally called the Pink Palace of the Pacific opened for business It was the preferred Hawaii residence of President Franklin D Roosevelt when he visited Hawaii during World War II Military bases EditWith annexation the United States saw Hawaii as its most strategic military asset McKinley and his successor U S President Theodore Roosevelt expanded the military presence in Hawaii and established several key bases some still in use today By 1906 the entire island of Oahu was being fortified at the coastlines with the construction of a Ring of Steel a series of gun batteries mounted on steel coastal walls One of the few surviving batteries completed in 1911 Battery Randolph is today the site of the U S Army Museum of Hawaii 14 15 List of Territorial Installations Camp McKinley est 1898 Fort Kamehameha est 1907 Pearl Harbor Naval Station est 1908 Fort Shafter est 1907 Fort Ruger est 1909 Schofield Barracks est 1909 Battery Closson est 1911 Battery Dudley est 1911 Battery Randolph est 1911 Fort DeRussy est 1915 Wheeler Army Airfield est 1922 Industrial boom and the Big Five EditAs a territory of the United States sugarcane plantations gained a new infusion of investment By getting rid of tariffs imposed on sugarcane sent to the continental United States planters had more money to spend on equipment land and labor Increased capital resulted in increased production Five kingdom era corporations benefited from annexation becoming multimillion dollar conglomerations Castle amp Cooke Alexander amp Baldwin C Brewer amp Co American Factors later Amfac Theo H Davies amp Co Together the five companies dominated the Hawaiian economy as the Big Five 16 Pineapples and Hawaii EditJames Dole also known as the Pineapple King arrived in Hawaii in 1899 He purchased land in Wahiawa and established the first pineapple plantation in Hawaii Confident that canned pineapples could become a popular food export Dole built a cannery near his first plantation in 1901 Hawaiian Pineapple Company later renamed Dole Food Company was born With his profits soaring Dole expanded and built a larger cannery in Iwilei near Honolulu Harbor in 1907 The Iwilei location made his main operations more accessible to labor The cannery at Iwilei was in operation until 1991 Dole found himself in the midst of an economic boom industry In response to growing pineapple demand in 1922 Dole purchased the entire island of Lanai and transformed the Hawaiian tropical low shrublands into the largest pineapple plantation in the world For a long stretch of time Lanai would produce 75 of the world s pineapple and become immortalized as the Pineapple Island 17 By the 1930s Hawaii became the pineapple capital of the world and pineapple production became its second largest industry After World War II there were a total of eight pineapple companies in Hawaii Today pineapples are imported from Thailand and elsewhere few are commercially grown in Hawaii 18 Race relations EditOne of the most prominent challenges territorial Hawaii had to face was race relations Intermarriage was tolerated and even sought after Many native women married immigrant men and joined their community 19 By 1898 most of Hawaii s population was made up of plantation workers from China Japan the Philippines and Portugal Their plantation experiences molded Hawaii to become a plantation culture The Hawaiian Pidgin language was developed on the plantations so they all could understand each other Buddhism and Shintoism grew to become large religions Catholicism became Hawaii s largest Christian denomination 20 Massie Trial Edit Main article Massie Trial Race relations in Hawaii took to the national spotlight on September 12 1931 when Thalia Massie a United States Navy officer s wife got drunk and alleged that she was beaten and raped That same night the Honolulu Police Department stopped a car and detained five men all plantation workers Officers took the men to Massie s hospital bedroom where she identified them Although evidence could not prove that the men were directly involved national newspapers quickly ran stories about the brute locals on the prowl for white women in Hawaii The jury in the initial trial failed to reach a verdict One of the accused was afterwards severely beaten while another Joseph Kahahawai was murdered Police caught the Kahahawai killers Massie s husband Thomas mother Grace Fortescue and two sailors Famed criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow defended them A jury of locals found them guilty and sentenced to hard labor for ten years Outraged by the court s punishment the territory s white leaders as well as 103 members of Congress signed a letter threatening to impose martial law over the territory This pressured Governor Lawrence M Judd to commute the sentences to an hour each in his executive chambers Hawaii residents were shocked 21 and all of America reconsidered what they thought of Hawaii s racial diversity 22 The term local Hawaii s non Caucasian population was galvanized through the Massie trial 23 Martial law EditFrom 1941 to 1944 following the attack on Pearl Harbor and America s entry into World War II Territorial Governors Joseph B Pointdexter and Ingram M Stainback stripped themselves of their administrative powers by declaring martial law 24 With the territorial constitution suspended the legislature and supreme court were also dissolved indefinitely Military law was enforced on all residents of Hawaii The formation of the military government was mostly done by Maj Gen Thomas H Green of the U S Army Judge Advocate General s Corps who became Military Attorney General General Walter Short appointed himself military governor December 7 1941 He assumed control of Hawaii and governed from ʻIolani Palace which was quickly barricaded and fitted with trenches He was relieved December 17 and charged with dereliction of duty accused of making poor preparations in case of attack before the attack on Pearl Harbor Under martial law every facet of Hawaiian life was under the control of the military governor His government fingerprinted all residents over the age of six imposed blackouts and curfews rationed food and gasoline censored the news and media censored all mail prohibited alcohol assigned business hours and administered traffic and special garbage collection The military governor s laws were called General Orders Violations meant punishment without appeal by military tribunals Anthony the shadow Attorney General of the period provides different information The aged and weak 25 Poindexter sic an appointed Democrat was variously misled into surrendering his powers Anthony does not mention fingerprinting corroborates gasoline rationing but not food the latter unlike the mainland and disproves a liquor ban by showing how the military gained handsome profits by liquor permits and fees The military government instituted employment stasis by General Order No 91 no leaving an employer without a letter of good standing and the banning of courts that required witnesses and juries Traffic violations were said to have netted prison terms 26 and the military courts evidenced bias against civilians There ensued a turf battle between the federal Departments of War Justice and Interior in which the middle one played a mediating or flip flopping role Indeed it appeared War if not the Pacific Command was operating autonomously 27 The Glockner and Seifert cases actually two detained naturalized Germans tested the military s suspension of habeas corpus In the second year of martial law August 1943 U S District Judge Metzger subpoenaed General Richardson as to why these two were held without charges The General according to General Order No 31 could have had the server arrested for bringing charges against a military person but instead had the Marshal manhandled so as to evade summons 28 The prisoners were released outside of Hawaii avoiding the implicated fall of military power List of Military Governors Walter C Short 1941 Delos C Emmons 1941 1943 Robert C Richardson Jr 1943 1944 Democratic Revolution of 1954 EditMain article Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954 The Democratic Revolution of 1954 was a nonviolent revolution consisting of general strikes protests and other acts of civil disobedience The Revolution culminated in the territorial elections of 1954 where the reign of the Hawaii Republican Party in the legislature came to an abrupt end as they were voted out of office to be replaced by members of the Democratic Party of Hawaii Hawaii 7 EditDuring the years leading up to the ousting of the Republican Party Cold War fears brewed and the U S was in the middle of the Second Red Scare The FBI employed the Smith Act toward the ILWU and Communist Party of Hawaii arresting those who would become known as the Hawaii 7 on August 28 1951 in synchronized raids at 6 30 that morning They were convicted in a two year long trial The Hawaii 7 were eventually released in 1958 29 30 Jack Hall John Reinecke Koji Ariyoshi Jack Kimoto Jim Freeman Charles Fujimoto Eileen FujimotoStatehood EditThe first Congressional bill for Hawaii statehood was proposed in 1919 by Kuhio Kalanianaole 31 and was based upon the argument that World War I had proved Hawaii s loyalty 32 It was ignored and proposals for Hawaii statehood were forgotten during the 1920s because the archipelago s rulers believed that sugar planters interests would be better served if Hawaii remained a territory 33 Following the Jones Costigan Act another statehood bill was introduced to the House in May 1935 by Samuel Wilder King but it did not come to be voted on largely because FDR himself strongly opposed Hawaii statehood 34 while Solid South Democrats who could not accept non white Congressmen controlled all the committees 35 Hawaii resurrected the campaign in 1940 by placing the statehood question on the ballot Two thirds of the electorate in the territory voted in favor of joining the Union 36 After World War II the call for statehood was repeated with even larger support even from some mainland states The reasons for the support of statehood were clear Hawaii wanted the ability to elect its own governor Hawaii wanted the ability to elect the president Hawaii wanted an end to taxation without voting representation in Congress Hawaii suffered the first blow of the war Hawaii s non white ethnic populations especially the Japanese proved their loyalty by having served on the European frontlines Hawaii consisted of 90 United States citizens most born within the U S All islands voted at least 93 percent in favor of Admission acts Ballot inset and referendum results for the Admission Act of 1959 A former officer of the Honolulu Police Department John A Burns was elected Hawaii s delegate to Congress in 1956 37 A Democrat Burns won without the white vote but rather with the overwhelming support of Japanese and Filipinos in Hawaii His election proved pivotal to the statehood movement Upon arriving in Washington D C Burns began making key political maneuvers by winning over allies among Congressional leaders and state governors Burns most important accomplishment was convincing Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B Johnson D Texas that Hawaii was ready to become a state despite the continuing opposition of such Deep Southerners as James Eastland 38 and John Sparkman In March 1959 both houses of Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act and U S President Dwight D Eisenhower signed it into law On June 27 1959 a plebiscite was held asking Hawaii residents to vote on accepting the statehood bill The plebiscite passed overwhelmingly with 94 3 voting in favor 39 On August 21 church bells throughout Honolulu were rung upon the proclamation that Hawaii was finally a US state See also Edit Hawai i portal 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2012 1390 1398 online Margaret A Parkman and Jack Sawyer Dimensions of ethnic intermarriage in Hawaii American Sociological Review 1967 593 607 in JSTOR Lawrence H Fuchs Hawaii Pono Hawaii the Excellent An Ethnic and Political History 1961 pp 83 110 Robinson Jennifer AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Island Murder KPBS Public Media Retrieved November 18 2018 The Crime That Changed the Islands www honolulumagazine com Retrieved November 18 2018 Soong Micheline August 19 2014 Asian American Society An Encyclopedia Gale Virtual Reference Library p 454 ISBN 978 1 4522 8189 6 Robinson Greg Interview Archived November 16 2011 at the Wayback Machine about his book A Tragedy of Democracy Japanese Confinement in North America CUP n d Retrieved March 9 2012 Anthony J Garner 1955 Hawaii Under Army Rule California Stanford University Press p 198 ISBN 0 8248 0377 9 Anthony J Garner 1955 Hawaii Under army Rule california Stanford University Press p 106 ISBN 0 8248 0377 9 Anthony J Garner 1955 Hawaii Under Army 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Associated Press November 7 1940 p 8 ProQuest 151232424 Democrats Win Hawaii Delegate The Washington Post November 8 1956 p A25 ProQuest 148714128 Bell Roger Last Among Equals Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics pp 134 256 ISBN 0824808479 Commemorating 50 Years of Statehood archive lingle hawaii gov State of Hawaii March 18 2009 Archived from the original on March 21 2014 Retrieved March 21 2014 On June 27 1959 a plebiscite was held to allow Hawai i residents to ratify the congressional vote for statehood The yes for statehood garnered 94 3 percent 132 773 votes while the no ballots totaled 5 7 percent 7 971 votes Further reading EditSurveys Edit Craig Robert D Historical dictionary of Honolulu and Hawaiʻi Scarecrow Press 1998 Daws Gavan 1968 Shoal of Time A History of the Hawaiian Islands University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0 8248 0324 8 Fuchs Lawrence H Hawaii Pono Hawaii the Excellent An Ethnic and Political History 1961 Haley James L Captive Paradise A History of Hawaii St Martin s Press 2014 Kuykendall Ralph Simpson and Arthur Grove Day Hawaii a history from Polynesian kingdom to American state Prentice Hall 1961 Wyndette Olive Islands of Destiny A History of Hawaii 1968 Specialty studies Edit Allen Helena G Sanford Ballard Dole Hawaii s Only President 1844 1926 1988 Bartholomew Duane P Richard A Hawkins and Johnny A Lopez Hawaii pineapple the rise and fall of an industry HortScience 47 10 2012 1390 1398 online Beechert Edward D Working in Hawaii A Labor History U of Hawaii Press 1985 401pp Brown DeSoto and Anne Ellett Hawaii goes to war life in Hawaii from Pearl Harbor to peace 1989 Chapin Helen Shaping history The role of newspapers in Hawai i University of Hawaii Press 1996 Forbes David W Encounters with paradise views of Hawaii and its people 1778 1941 Honolulu Academy of Arts 1992 Hartwell Alfred S The Organization of a Territorial Government for Hawaii The Yale Law Journal vol 9 no 3 1899 pp 107 113 JSTOR Hawkins Richard A James D Dole and the 1932 Failure of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company The Hawaiian Journal of History 2007 vol 41 pp 149 170 Imai Shiho Creating the Nisei Market Race amp Citizenship in Hawai i s Japanese American Consumer Culture 2010 Jung Moon Kie Reworking Race the making of Hawaii s interracial labor movement Columbia University Press 2006 MacLennan Carol A Sovereign Sugar Industry and Environment in Hawaii 2014 Melendy Howard Brett and Rhoda E A Hackler Hawaii America s Sugar Territory 1898 1959 Lewiston New York Edwin Mellen Press 1999 Melendy Howard Brett Walter Francis Dillingham 1875 1963 Hawaiian Entrepreneur and Statesman Lewiston New York Edwin Mellen Press 1996 Melendy H Brett The Controversial Appointment of Lucius Eugene Pinkham Hawaii s First Democratic Governor Hawaiian Journal of History 1983 Vol 17 pp 185 208 Parkman Margaret A and Jack Sawyer Dimensions of ethnic intermarriage in Hawaii American Sociological Review 1967 593 607 JSTOR Poblete JoAnne Islanders in the Empire Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai i University of Illinois Press 2014 Rohrer Judy Haoles in Hawai i 2010 124pp scholarly survey Sumida Stephen H And the View from the Shore Literary Traditions of Hawai i University of Washington Press 2015 Williams Jr Ronald Race Power and the Dilemma of Democracy Hawaii s First Territorial Legislature 1901 Hawaiian Journal of History 2015 49 1 pp 1 45 Whitehead John S Completing the Union Alaska Hawai i and the Battle for Statehood 2004 Primary sources Edit Thomas H Green The Papers of Major General Thomas H Green Judge Advocate General s Corps U S Army University Publications of America 2001External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hawaii Territory Hawaii Army Museum Society Morgan Report Congressional Debates On Hawaiian Organic Act Matters Concerning the Hawaiian Islands in the 56th Congress First Session December 4 1899 June 7 1900 Photostatic Reproductions from the Congressional Record Vol 33 Parts 1 8 See also the preceding Category 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