Hawaii

Examples of Hawaii in the following topics:

• The United States and the World

  • The Kingdom of Hawaii was established in 1795 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kauaʻi and Niʻihau by the chiefdom of Hawaiʻi (or the "Big Island"), ruled by the dynasty of King Kamehameha the Great.
  • King Kalākaua appointed Dole a justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii on December 28, 1887, and to a commission to revise judiciary laws on January 24, 1888.
  • The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory existed as a United States organized incorporated territory from July 7, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when its territory, with the exception of Johnston Atoll, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.
  • Dole of the Republic of Hawaii, his cabinet, and officers of the United States Army, reviewing from the steps of the former royal palace the first American troops to arrive in Honolulu, in 1898, on their way to Manila to capture the city, which Commodore Dewey held at bay with the guns of his fleets.

• Cleveland and the Special Interests

  • In his first term, Cleveland had supported free trade with Hawaii and accepted an amendment that gave the United States a coaling and naval station in Pearl Harbor.
  • Cleveland withdrew the treaty from the Senate and sent former Congressman James Henderson Blount to Hawaii to investigate the conditions there.
  • Cleveland dropped all talk of reinstating the Queen, and went on to recognize and maintain diplomatic relations with the new Republic of Hawaii.

• American Imperialism

  • One of the most notable examples of American Imperialism in this age was the Annexation of Hawaii in 1898, where the United States gained the control and possession of all ports, buildings, harbors, military equipment, and public property that had formally belonged to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands.
  • This action eventually resulted in Hawaii becoming America's 50th state in 1959.
  • This is a caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled 'Philippines', 'Hawaii,' 'Puerto Rico,' and 'Cuba' in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states.

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
  • Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth of Honolulu harbor and Kilauea Military Camp on the island of Hawaii. 
  • Navy battleship USS California (BB-44) slowly sinking alongside Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), as a result of bomb and torpedo damage, December 7, 1941.

• Settlement of the New Land

  • Hawai'i became the fiftieth state in the Union after a military coup by Euro-American business interests deposed the native monarchy.

• War, Empire, and an Emerging American World Power

  • Shows territories and possessions of the United States after the Spanish American War, including Alaska, Cuba, Hawaii, Marianas, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Samoa in addition to the continental United States.
  • A cartoon of Uncle Sam seated in restaurant looking at the bill of fare containing "Cuba steak," "Porto Rico pig," the "Philippine Islands" and the "Sandwich Islands" (Hawaii) and saying "Well, I hardly know which to take first!

• Leapfrogging to Tokyo

  • On December 7, 1941, after failing to resolve a dispute with the United States over Japan's actions in China and French Indochina, the Japanese attacked the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • Roosevelt (middle), General MacArthur (left), and Admiral Nimitz (right) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 26, 1944, National Archives and Records Administration.

• Tyler and Texas

  • He applied the Monroe Doctrine to Hawaii, told Britain not to interfere there, and began the process towards the eventual annexation of Hawaii by the United States.

• Mobilization and the Development of the West

  • Captain Anne Lentz was its first commissioned officer and Private Lucille McClarren its first enlisted woman; the first detachment of female marines was sent to Hawaii for duty in 1945.

• Coral Sea and Midway

  • This operation was also considered preparatory for further attacks against Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii.