History Forum

Chapter 17: must answer the prompt(s) posed here in 7-10 sentences
Watch Liliuokalani: The Last Queen of Hawaii here:(https://houstonpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ull20-queen-liliuokalani-video/unladylike2020/****

1. Who were the foreign landowners in Hawaii? Where were they from? Why did many of them want to overthrow the Hawaiian government?

2. How do you think the “Bayonet Constitution” got its name?

3. What does “annexation” mean? What was the argument of native Hawaiians against annexation?

4. Why did Liliuokalani agree to officially resign her claim to the throne? How do you think she felt in this moment?

5. Why did Indigenous Hawaiians oppose the United States’ decision to annex Hawaii, since the Hawaiian monarchy had already been overthrown?

6. Why do you think some Americans did not want to annex Hawaii?

7. Why is Hawaii’s location strategically important? How did U.S. imperialism affect foreign territories?

Chapter 18( Watch the video the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABBwNxgBHw

1) For the Triangle Fire, write a Reaction essay. First, describe what happened and why. How would you have responded had you been a worker in the factory, a journalist covering the fire, the relative of one of the workers, or one of the owners of the factory? What did you think about the causes of the fire and the social, political and legal fall out afterwards? Was the martyrdom of the workers worth it? Why do you think progressive change took so long?