HIST 173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jacob S. Coxey Sr., Plans, 1887 Constitution Of The Kingdom Of Hawaii
Document Summary
Queen liliuokalani succeeded her brother, king kalakaua. American and british missionaries, 1820s, covert hawaiians to christianity. 1875, sugar missionaries encouraged american businesses to buy sugar plantation. 1888, bayonet constitution, implied the use of us arms to allow noncitizens, (americans and corporation dominated to buy into sugar trades. Euproeans) to vote, but denied suffrage to native hawaiians, chinese, and japanese who worked in the sugar elds. Liliuokalani was deposed and sandford b. dole stepped in as the new president of hawaii. July 3, 1894, dole, proclaimed hawaii as an independent republic. Department of interior (1849), grew into the largest and most important federal of ce. Department of treasury- collecting federal taxes/customs/printing money and stamps, 4x in. More than 50% of all federal jobs were patronage positions0 56,000 in 1881. size from 1873-1900. Expanded federal power over business by prohibiting pooling and discriminatory rates by railroads and establishing the rst federal regulatory agency.