Why is Hawaii a Part of the United States?
Why is Hawaii a Part of the United States?
In 1959, the United States of America gained its 50th member. Hawaii, which had been a territory of the U.S. since 1898, earned its place as the final star on the Stars and Stripes; becoming the beloved vacation spot and island paradise we now know today. Hawaii’s image is associated with a beauty of culture and experiences, ranging from luaus to hula dancing to volcanoes and Pearl Harbor - but much of the territory’s original history and culture is now unknown to the American masses. And that has a lot to do with how the U.S. acquired Hawaii…
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Should Hawaii be part of the United States? Also if you guys have any suggestions for future topics, please reply bellow
Can you make a video about spain? Love you videos❤
MISTAKE: Your map shows Honalulu on the island of Kauai. Honalulu is actually on the island of Oahu, adjacent to Pearl Harbor.
Of course! I’ve been to Hawaii. It’s just like any other state in the Union.
French colonisation of West Africa
Yes of course it should be.
Here for this. I was born in Cincinnati Ohio, joined the Marines at 17 and was stationed in Hawaii. Huge culture shock, and most people don't all know the information made in this video. And that is depressing to me.
of course they don't know. it will spark nationalism to Hawaiians if it were taught in their educational system.
@@gabbytay why would Hawaii want to leave the US? All Hawaiians get their basic needs like water from the rest of the US. Hawaii's economy is surviving because of the rest of the US. Without the US, Hawaii would collapse and be conquered by someone else.
@@theawesomeman9821 exactly. Why would xinjiang and tibet leave china. Their infrastructure and economy is running because of china. Yet the western world are pro independence towards them. Im just stating facts brother. Hawai was a independent country way back. And was forced to submission same as xinjiang and tibet.
@ay first of all, no Western nation supports Xinjiang and Tibet leaving China, the West doesn't like China but it doesn't want to create a power vacuum by giving expansionist Russia and India the ability to replace China as a threat. Second of all, the US took Hawaii at the request of Hawaii's republican government, that's a volantary ascension not a conquest. Hawaiian nationalism is not as big as you think it is with the native Hawaiians. A recent poll was taken and over 85%, including those who dislike the US would never vote for independence for Hawaii if given the chance.
@@theawesomeman9821 not a conquest. Tell that to new mexico, california, and texas. Pretty sure the whole USA was from conquest. Say hello to your english, german, dutch, french papis for me. And didnt you just see the video, on how foreigners put pressure to hawaian government? This guy...
Thanks for making a video on this topic which covers most of the historical facts without all of the emotional charge and romanticism other videos get wrapped up in. And double thanks for taking the time to get most of your pronunciations pretty good. It's appreciated.
Great video; not sure if you realize you have Honolulu, on the island of Kaui. It should be on the island of Oahu.
One can't help but feel a fair amount of sympathy for Queen Liliuokalani. She was bullied into losing her throne when she was just trying to undo some wrongs that had been done to her family and people.
Can't say for certain. This video makes it seems that way, but the details are vague and I've learned in my years that when you see a political video on anything, you're always only being shown the half that makes you favor the side they want you to.
No need to feel bad for her, her family conquered the other Hawaiian Islands and subjugated the peoples there to form their kingdom. The US did the same to her that her ancestors did to the other Islands. It's easy to point the fingers but the facts are all kingdoms and nations, big and small have conquered and subjugated others at one point or the other in history. No nation has clean hands.
@@zjeee😂 the inconvenient truth that they always fail to mention.
@@zjeee that is incorrect. The house of kalakaua is different from that of Kamehameha. The house of Kamehameha was prophesized to unite the warring islands. That happened and peace was finally brought. before the Kamehameha's these islands always had war. After the Kamehameha's, the kalakaua family was the highest ranking family and earned the vote of the people coming from the lines of big island and o'ahu l while the Kamehameha's came from Maui and big island
@@trevorv9218 he was incorrect. See me reply to him
The Panama Canal did not exist in 1874.
👌🏻Indeed The Panama Canal was only finished/opened in 1914.✌🏻
What does that have to do with this video?
@@charliematts1736 Watch the video; they have boats passing through the Isthmus.
They could cross the Isthmus as did many 49ers.
@@daveblock4061 they showed BOATS passing through the Isthmus. That would require a canal that did not get completed until 40 years later. Why critique a critique when the initial critique had facts and logic supporting it?
It always starts with "missionaries" and ends with euro-decendants owning everything. Even the native people.
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0:55 DBZ flashbacks
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Is not a coincidence either! Toriyama wanted soemthing that incorporated the frase "kame", and he asked his wife for help. She then sugested the name of the first king of hawaii
US: Hawaii cannot be given to locals for geopolitical reasons of pacific defence. Same happened for other islands: Marshall Islands, Guam, temporarily Ryukyu, Samoa, Fed. States of Micronesia and 10+ more islands in Pacific.
Those years have been the high time of Western Imperialism by the British, French, and Americans. Germans tried to start, Spanish, Dutch, and Portugiese were in decline ...
That's not a justification for the illegal overthrow of a sovereign nation. The local businessmen overthrow the Queen, put her under house arrest and when the locals figured out that US govt was NOT going to stop the overthrow, they wanted to stage a violent rebellion and the Queen balked again bc she did not want to see so many Hawaiians killed. Then, she was forced to sign away her sovereign rights forever.
I have native Hawaiian cousins from the North Shore of Oahu. Whenever people see us together and I tell them we're cousins, it usually causes confusion because of how white I am and how dark skinned they are. My aunt married their dad so we're not blood related, however we treat each other as brothers. They tell me of certain neighborhoods where whites are looked down upon, and it's only gotten worse over the decades. Luckily since we are family I never run into any issues when I'm with them at parties or gatherings, but I really don't blame the natives for having that outlook. Especially after watching this and learning more about how Hawaii was taken from them.
Well we're all humans, one single race. Besides, I can't help but think the world would be more just and better if under one goverment
@@dinoguy6177I don't see how one government would make the world a better place. There will always be a minority that benefits from the government and the majority that are not represented by the government. A one world government would only compound the issue.
@perceivedvelocity9914 I'm a minority, things aren't better either way for people like me. But if the world was under one world democratic govement, or at least something like the EU, things would be better for everyone.
Good video.
How did you create the map in the video?
you said 1984! at 8:49! WOO WOO!! - Happens to me sometimes. i get numbers mixed up.
He didn’t say 1984, he clearly said 1884.
@cactusking4045 no he said 1984
@@notnyce The hell are you talking about? He clearly states that it was in 1884.
What's the music at the end?
Hey, can u please make video about the Hayatos? The Austronesians in Japan
bro activated KAMEHAMEHA
I see a lot of people who keep saying #FreeHawaii in the comments... as a descendant of native Hawaiians who lived on the islands when the Kingdom was overthrown, the idea of freeing Hawaii toady is absolutely absurd. Yes, the overthrow was bad and Grover Cleveland should've done more to stop it when it was in motion. But Hawaii's economy today is built on tourism... primarily AMERICAN tourism, because it's a domestic destination that's exotic to travel to - NO passport, foreign currencies, or excessive duties/fees needed. You take that away, and you'll see a sharp decline in tourism to the islands. On top of that, now the islands have to find a new way to provide for citizens and subsidize it's economy, now that the US & its people are out of the question. That also leads into military support... Pearl Harbor and Hawaii's strategic location are perfect for any country seeking to have dominance over the Pacific Ocean militarily. There's no way Hawaii would be able to stand up to other nations on their own if another nation decided to take the islands for themselves (i.e. China).They'll either be conquered again, or forced to become reliant on another larger nation in the region. The Kingdom of Hawaii was a marvel of its time - a civilized kingdom whose people embraced Christianity and its Western values openly, without force very early on. Who was one of the very few islands not conquered by foreign powers (no, the Union Jack on Hawaii's flag did not mean it was a British Colony. Go look up the history of the Kingdom's flag), and had good, consistent relations with many major foreign nations. Who were able to develop and embrace an unique culture and people all of their own. Let's work to revive the culture and legacy of the Kingdom, and not let the whitewashing of culture that is taking place in major cities all throughout the world, happen in Hawaii. That goes for other places too - Texas, the South, the Midwest, etc.
Please make vlogs on : " Rise and Fall of Persian Empire" , "Rise and Fall of Mongols/ Mongolians " .
In a perfect world then I think yes obviously it would have been preferable if it had continued to modernize as its own independent nation or if at the very least it had been left up to the indigenous Hawaiian population to decide their own fate. But I can also acknowledge that at this point that Hawaii is so integrated with the USA that it would be a nightmare to try to untangle it at this point wether it was acquired rightly or not. Things could be done however absolutely better to protect and recognize the indigenous population, and to safeguard the the overall Hawaiian population from priced/developed out of their own homes from the vacation industry and wealthy mainland American families simply wanting a vacation home.
Where there a will there is a way. It's not no where near trying to sweep it under a rock. Action needs to be taken and with due diligence everything can be corrected in time. U.S. overthrew the government of Iraq then gave it eight back to the people of Iraq. This has also gas been the same story in Afghanistan. So why hasn't Hawaii been given back to its people?
Hawaii is a great place for the Naval forces. Also, it plays as a very fast deployment base for the military. Of course, that was way before the US had bases in Guam, Japan and South Korea.
@4:06, the graphic shows the British travelling through the Panama Canal in 1874. The Panama Canal wasn't finished until 1914! That's a bit of a miss by the editor.
I’m from Hawai’i and I wanted to point out that the Bayonet constitution disenfranchised the Native Hawaiian and Immigrant populations and they lost nearly all their voting power to rich white land owners. The proposed 1893 constitution was an attempt to restore political power to Native Hawaiians. I would not characterize it as being a restoration of absolute monarchy. The monarchy stopped being an absolute monarchy in 1840 with the first constitution which was incredibly progressive for its time.
Progressive? Are you talking about the same royal family that married brothers to sisters and executed anyone that thought about independence from their kingdom?
Educate yourself. Your way out in left field. Your comment lacks all the facts and your choice of words proves you know nothing about this at all.
@@Jon-go6be I’ve taken entire courses on this period of Hawaiian History and you don’t make any claims in this comment other than “I know nothing” so until I see something I’ll consider your comment to be baseless
Sad this video ignored the native people of Hawaii wanting Independence, or the US federal law that bans direct trading with Hawaii. Instead all imports must go past the islands to California and then go to Hawaii, making life extremely expensive on the island. This was done as a successful attempt to force natives out to the continent, forcing natives that stayed into de facto servitude, while giving the rich colonizer’s extreme power over the natives lives.
It is crazy to think that there is a law that bans trade. I'm sure that doubles the cost, at the least.
Same in Puerto Rico
Dude a ridiculously small minority of native Hawaiians want "independence"
One area of information not entered into this video is the threat, real or imagined by the USA of Britain, Japan or even Germany seizing the islands and controlling a vast area of the central Pacific. This was an ever present worry of the USA and it's own Hawaiian residents, not necessarily the local native born residents.
Still don't justify illegally annexing of a sovereign nation, that would be like the USA annexing all of Mexico or canada because they were worried about a foreign power invading through adjacent countries. There's no legal valid basis here for occupation and annexation... it was wrong then, regardless of the circumstances, and it's still wrong today under any circumstances.
Ah yes, the ol' "we'll invade just in case someone else may do so".
So rather wait until the Japanese attack from Hawaii to the west coast of the USA?@@user-ds8rj2vc4v
Well in Dec 1941 Japan would have been a lot closer to the west coast if attacking from Hawaii. @@user-ds8rj2vc4v
Just like Hitler invading Czechoslovakia to protect the Germans residing there & Putin invading The Ukraine to protect the pro Russian population.
I just want to point out that if Hawaii had a referendum for or against independence today and only native Hawaiians were allowed to vote, 85% would vote to stay within the US.
theres no such thing as a native hwaiian these days
@@Kr4zYm0f0I’m native Hawaiian Jack
You're American just like the rest of us, get over it. I dont say Im native Ohioan, though I was born amd raised in Ohio as well as my forefathers (since the early 1800s).
How do you come to such a figure - where did you find that number?
@@jvvoid I believe the source was National Review
Because if we didn't then the British Empire most assuredly would have.
And that doesn't make it ok that we did it? Two wrongs don't make a write
@@samwill7259 sometimes it appears the board is set where there are no favorable options especially when rushed.
@@samwill7259 but no it does not make it right.
@@JPJ432 Yeah, except that this isn't a case of two bad options. It was one bad option and one hypothetical one. Do you have any evidence of it being occupied by the British Empire? It was also 1893. The British Empire didn't really do a whole lot more expanding in that time.
Why lie?
8:45 the transcript says "1894" and the narrator clearly says "1984"
I thought I was crazy.
Nice sharing
Same that's happening in Haiti right now.
0:55 Dragon ball Z flashback. King Kamihamiha 😂
You have Honolulu on the wrong island @ 00:48
Great video but please no more grey water... got me confused as heck in the beginning
And let's not forget about Hawaiian Punch 😁
Hawaii #1
Why is their independence unusual?
Can you make a video on Polynesian exploration/expansion?
While Hawai’i did have its flaws, it did have its pros as well. They had good relationships with the Europeans and Americans, actually recognizing Argentina before anyone else. They prioritized education and were keenly invested into technology. That is why Iolani Palace had electricity before the White House.
If educated about the facts you won't see any flaws. Corruption in part by U.S. has forced them to commit several war crimes against the people of Hawaii.
Is it me or did the narrator miss the part of the Queen getting locked into her own room?
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico is still waiting for statehood.
Surprised we didn't keep going southwest and turn Australia into the 51st state
We should convince canada to dissolve first
So Hawaii is the answer to: Which U.S. territory was once a monarchy ?
Shout out Grover Cleveland.
Excellent question. Let’s give it to Japan. Cheers!
Or Russia
@@chrislohmann1643 Sir I propose we give NY to Russia. Probably include Massachusetts as a bonus. Cheers!
It sounds like the missionaries themselves weren’t a problem but their descendants. It is an unfortunate part of Christianity that many biblical Christians end up with children who aren’t and act in an unchristian manner.
My sister was born in Hawaii on March 14, 1998.
Is she single?
@@hailchristandmary Are you desperate???
@@fresh-eggsdamn is she that ugly?
Why do you give out your sister's birth date to strangers?
Because it has 🍍 plantations everywhere and nice beaches. The sun is to all.
If America didn't have Hawaii some other country would grab it.
This is VERY true.
Japan tried... didn't work out so well
@@earl3358 They weren't trying to invade the place,
They would have if they could have. Hawaii Invasion Plans were proposed alongside the air attack but dropped when they thought crippling the Pacific fleet would be sufficient for their goals. They were going after Midway and Alaskan islands as well. Now for the last 50 yrs Japan is by far the biggest real estate purchaser in Hawaii. Although at times that hasn't worked out well either
Yup. It would have been the Russians since they tried to colonize Hawaii. But if not for the Russians and the Americans, it would have been the British or the Japanese instead.
I have a feeling you'e never used google maps before
What kind of government did Hawaii have before 1810?
Hawaii was a constitutional monarchy before the bayonet constitution. Also Liliuokalani didn’t change it to an absolute monarchy. That’s something that people get wrong.
But hey they got a Dole Plantation
Listen bro hawaii having pimapples it exports to the continental states is huge for them. Plus.tbe bacation spot aspect with tourism its very odd things to have fof an island chain in the middle of freaking nowhere man
Make videos on gurjar pratihara empire
Nothing new . . . under the sun. It's just never ending.
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It's way overdue for Puerto Rico to be a state.
#FreeHawaii
Says a non Hawaiian
People will say anything nowadays lol. Hawaii isn't going to be free unless they go to war with the USA lol so basically never.
No
It's only up to the people of Hawaii if they want independence.
@@solidsnivy5639 Says who? Pretty sure it'd be up to the people of America if Hawaii is allowed independence.
When will Puerto Ricotta become a State of the US? And why it hasn’t become one yet?
i feel bad for native hawaiians
Your mixing up the many groups who immigrated to Hawaii as “natives”
Wait till you heard about the native of the middle east😂
I mean, they went from a tribal kingdom to a democratic republic. Sure it was initially not done willingly, but still probably for the better.
Wait till you hear what they were doing to each other before unification
@@user-ds8rj2vc4v yes I think in long term it benefited them if there is any left
Pineapples. The Dole company.
King KAA-MEEE-HAAAA-MEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Important to know that by the time of the referendum Hawaii was barely Hawaiian
Because America took it
Certain history books in the USA recount things differently.
That's history, I am sure there are millions of historians out there and they rarely agree on anything.
@@zjeee Not exactly the same way I meant.
Such was the behavior of all great powers during the Age of Colonialism.
Its crazy that this almost didn't happen Britain almost made it a protectorate if that happened the whole of American power would of been insanely weaker.
I feel so sorry for the remaining full blood native Hawaiians: 1. Their lands were taken by a powerful government. 2. Their culture and language were suppressed hence very little of it remain. 3. Their voices were suppressed because of influx of immigrants. They have become minorities in their own land. 4. Because of racial mixing, the native Hawaiian identity has weakened.
I hate to think about what would have happened if we didn't take Hawaii and let the Japanese have it. We may have lost at least our west Coast to the Japanese. Both Hawaii and ourselves benefited from our taking possession of it!
And why not?
We SHOULD be up to 55, not 50. American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin islands. We need to make them official states.
It's a territory not a state
That why
@@Bronc06555 lol, I know it's a territory. I said should be a state.
Statehood has requirements that small far off territories can't meet. They have to be big like Hawaii and Alaska
Hawaii is it's own sovereign nation, With treaties with more than 40 nations prior to the Annexation of Hawaii to the US. We were unlawfully overthrown by the US because of fertile lands and strategic location to overpower Japanese, Chinese,, Korea and other countries, and didn't want Hawaii to go to anther country's protection. we had close relationship with England and France, and visited Buckingham Palace when Queen Victoria of England was on the throne. Our people did not want to "" become Americans" Only people who had deeds to their land had the right to vote. Funny, but the only ones with a printing press were the missionaries. Hawaiians were an. Oral society, with lands that were shared and passed from generation. .President Bill Clinton signed an apology for the ILLEGAK OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM and the UnlawFul imprisonment of our Queen Lili'uokalani, until the Annexation paper were signed. Under Duress. Since then? Nothing!! We are still. Waiting for justice!!!
King Kamehameha lol
Bro sounds like Oxhorn
Mainland usa is just East Hawaii 😂
Shh, they haven't figured out our expansion plans for the 9th island yet.
Mass migration to the islands led to its downfall 🧐 interesting…
It was religion so as per usual Christianity ruins everything
Sounds like what’s happening in Europe
Funny that ain't it. Seems history likes to repeat itself 🥴
Tiny islands compared to a huge country like the USA. Don't try to compare this with migration to Europe or the US. Especially when it's for fleeing war and poverty, and not for a mission to conquer and convert. Especially when the US is made (almost) entirely of migrants anyway.
@@sandrob.7232 The people invading Europe are going to conquer. You’re right Hawaii is a lot smaller than Europe but the same logic and point still stands.
Free Hawaii
My Mom spent a good chunk of her early years in Hawaii, where she was bullied for being White. The racial aspect is actually a relatively new phenomenon (1960s onwards), and it stems from the island's identity crisis going all the way back to Queen Liliʻuokalani. The coup was launched by the Hawaiian Oligarchy, which is about 50% native, and served to benefit the most from an American takeover, since they owned most of the sugar plantations. They still holds a huge sway over the archipelago's affairs to this day, having converted most of their plantations to resorts.
White people complaining about being bullied for being white is probably the funniest thing to me
@@Johnnyboyking1 You mistakenly believe me to be complaining. I am not. According to definitions in the 1950s, I would not be White due to my father having a noticable south Mediterranean heritage. Some of my grandfather's friends had ample reason to fear the Klan here in Upstate NY. Racial bias and bullying was common in the 20th century globally, thanks to God being abandoned as our source of brotherhood and community. No race, ethnicity, or color was exempt.
@@Johnnyboyking1 This has real strong 1933 vibes to me
@johnnyboyking1 Slavs are white, which is where we get the word slave from. White people were heavily enslaved by middle easterners and north africans for centuries.
i feel envious of Hawaiians because they were back up economically and militarily by the USA and in return USA will have a luxurious paradise destination in the Middle of the Pacific LOL
MURICA’
In short....that's what the US did back then. In fact, it's pretty much what most powerful nations did at the time. Not judging. It's just fact.
And after all that, they DEW'ed it. God bless the native people of Hawaii.
I wonder what would have happened if none of this happened before ww2 and Hawaii was not a territory in 1941.
10:41 / 10:56
Bro is really named Kamehameha
#freehawai
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Thank you so much for your support!
If Japan colonized Hawaii, the Japanese would have been very brutal towards the Hawaiians.
And theyd be selling most the pinapples in asia
You have the dot for Honolulu on the wrong island...
America heck yeah WORLD POLICE
The Hawaiian Islands were needed as a coaling and resupply station for American ships headed to Asia and newly acquired Islands of the Philippines.
AmericaAAAAAA F YEAH
Murica...freedom...yee haw
And America has the gall and hypocrisy to criticise China for thinking it can reunite Taiwan with mainland China.
Colonization is colonization. Democracy is pure democracy.
Grapejuice is grapejuice Snow is pure water
@@thor.halsli heh
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, .…” ~ you know; the tha whole thing ! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
Hawaiian Monarchy was never a democracy
The founders of this nation were very concerned regarding the inherent dangers of establishing a pure democracy; and that is why, in their utter genius, the United States of America was established as a constitutional republic. 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
Because it was there! 😂
Hawaii were lucky that the US haven't found an oil on their islands... I mean, the lack of FREEDOM, but basically the mechanism was the same. Force local government to abdicate by using the army. Hawaii was simply invaded by the US.
After spending 4 yrs there I came to the conclusion long ago that it shouldn’t be.
Normally the USA is portrayed as bad for supporting dictators. But in this video USA is portrayed as bad for NOT supporting a dictator? Eh, cool story bro.
A dictator that was married to her brother at one point. Sounds like an interesting family.
Russia had a colony on Kauai. Was kicked out by the Hawaiian monarch. Russia might reclaim the Hawaiian islands making it a part of the Russian Federation. If it does it will control the pacific. But will it use military force?
Americans: Free Tibet The World: Free Hawaii
Both. We should do both
Free Easter Island 🗿🏝🙌😎🤗👌
Hawaiian natives themselves after their independence referendum: Landslide let's stay in the US.
Because Murica. XD
How on earth did the Polynesians from the Marquises islands find Hawaii? Canoeing thousands of miles aimlessly? that’s a bigger story than the Israelites wandering in the Sinai desert for 40 years!
That's how the Polynesians "found" everything. They were the greatest mariners of their era and one of the best in human history period
Maybe google articles and videos about it? It wasn't aimlessly and it's not really a mystery. They were proper explorers.
And even that story is silly 😂 egyptians, nubians and cushites all traded and went to war with qedarites, hittites, Assyrians and others they voyaged by sea and land... getting lost for 40 years in the most crucial human crossway is codswallop