HIUS 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Japanese In Hawaii, Indentured Servant, Panama Canal Zone
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Hius 103 article notes hawai"i (117) using pacific islanders as migrant laborers in the americas to tame the wilderness and settle the land. The asian periphery (118) east asian discontent over corrupt government and high taxes: taiping rebellion caused millions of death and a lot of property damage, weakening china and allowing more foreign influence. In the philippines, the us introduced western school, government, capitalism and tried to suppress catholicism: british colonial rule in south asia. Chinese (120) sugar plantations originally had hawaiian workers, but as plantations expanded needed more laborers, so businesses turned to chinese: chinese men opening their own sugar mills, marrying hawaiian women, and becoming hawaiian citizens. Switching to japanese labor: 1894 outnumbered chinese on sugar plantations. Japanese: 3 year terms and half the wages of chinese workers, masters complaining about ill health, planters believing that workers had to be "broken in" and treated them cruelly, even when advised.
