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A modern photograph of the Willamette Valley, ceded to the United States in the 1855 Kalapuya Treaty. The Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc., also known as the Kalapuya Treaty or the Treaty of Dayton, was an 1855 treaty between the United States and the bands of the Kalapuya tribe, the Molala tribe, the Clackamas, and several others in the Oregon Territory.
In Hawaii, the government became concerned that the subsequent United States Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, which lowered sugar tariffs imposed on product imported from all nations, had left them at a disadvantage. Article IV of the reciprocity treaty prevented Hawaii from making reciprocity treaties with other nations.
The Kalapuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects.The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States, an area bounded by the Cascade Range to the east, the Oregon Coast Range at the west, the Columbia River at the north, to the Calapooya Mountains of ...
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making ...
Many in the Hawaiʻi business community were willing to cede Pearl Harbor to the United States in exchange for the treaty, but Kalākaua was opposed to the idea. A seven-year treaty was signed on January 30, 1875, without any Hawaiian land being ceded. [53] San Francisco sugar refiner Claus Spreckels became a major investor in Hawaiʻi's sugar ...
The first United States Minister to Hawaii (diplomatic rank roughly equivalent to a modern Ambassador) was David L. Gregg, who became minister to Hawaii in 1853. [1] A commercial agent (called Consul starting in 1844) had served in the islands since 1820. [2] From November 1874 to February 1875, King Kalākaua made a state visit to the United ...
The spotlight on Hawaii, "enormously increased the general interest in the current discussion of the proposed reciprocity treaty." [ 96 ] Hawaiian legislators Joseph Nāwahī and George Washington Pilipō led the native Hawaiian opposition who saw the treaty as a step towards annexation of the kingdom and only beneficial to the elite number of ...
The meeting was called to order by Sanford B. Dole (cousin of then 9-year-old James Dole) and chaired by Peter Cushman Jones, the president of the largest sugarcane plantation agency in Hawaii. [ 5 ] : 142 The Hawaiian League and Americans had developed a vast majority of the Hawaiian Kingdom's wealth.