Korean Migration To Hawaii

• The Koreans left their homeland because they were being oppressed by the Japanese.
• The first wave of Korean immigrant to Hawaii which was an American colony. There experience in Hawaii was better than the other entire immigrant group because at the time Hawaii was still mostly Hawaiian and not Americans. So they were treated fairly and were paid 75-95 cents a day comparing to the Irish, who made 1 dollar a week.
• Life as an immigrant was the Korean immigrant working for an sugar plantation, but later on they moved to working on pineapple plantation because they were paid more, less racism, and it was between the rural and the urban of Hawaii so they can buy stuff from the city.
• Also in the beginning some Korean tried to start their farm, but ended up failing because the climate was not right and managing the farm was different then in Korea.
• The second generation of the Koreans, 90% of them left the plantation job and moved into the cities. One job they were after was being an apprentice tailor. As an apprentice tailor you only got paid 2 dollars a month, but were fed and had a home. Also after only a year they can leave and start their own tailor business. Then there was some that opened business and end up making a fortune. Some business made 500$ or more a month.
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In the rural parts of Hawaii Koreans were not really suffering for racism, but when they went to the urban racism hit them hard.
They were not able to take out loans, but the Korean had a different system that worked and ended up starting business. This system is where 10-50 people come in and put a certain amount of money, for example let’s say 10 dollars then the people bid on the money with an interest amount the winner gets all the money but they have to pay back the amount they bored plus interests. This worked out really well because Koreans were really honorable people and these were usually with clan
members.
• Koreans spoke better English then the Chinese or Japanese so they were hired more often
• Koreans were also paid to be strike breakers against the Japanese because back home the Japanese oppressed the Koreans. This made the Korean take this job as revenge.
• The Korean immigrant was mostly brought in by Christian missionaries.
• The Immigration Laws and Acts made it so the Koreans were not able to become American citizen. Also because the Japanese took over Korea they stopped the Koreans for immigrating to American. This is why there is a huge gap between the first wave and the second wave.
Washington History
• Because of the Dawes act half of the south part of Washington was given to white people and taken from the Native American
• In 1910 Women was allowed to vote.
• Boeing company in Washington made weapons for world war 1
• The Great Northern Railroad was complete in Washington in the 1893 Depression of the 1893
• The depression caused 25% of Americans railroads to be bankrupt, in some cities more than 20% of the citizens were unemployed, and weirdly people blamed the depression on the people who didn’t work. This idea was so believed that Unemployed people believe they were the cause of it and some even committed to suicide.
• Many middle class people at the time feared that the lower class will start anarchy and ruin them.
• An Ohio business man came up with radical ideas to save the countries. Yet most of them was not even tried till the government thought it was there last choice. His idea created jobs for government work, like building public buildings.