Essay On Hawaii Annexation

Later on, in 1891, King David Kalakaua dies, and his sister, Liliuokalani becomes Queen. However, she only stayed queen for 2 years. This was because, unlike her brother, she had the courage to reject the new Constitution the Americans forced upon them. The Americans didn’t like that she tried to limit their power, so there were American marines sent in to protect the Americans. Queen Liliuokalani gave up her throne, when faced with guns, to avoid any more bloodshed. So, Queen Liliuokalani only got 2 years to serve as Queen. Then, in 1898, Hawaii is annexed by President McKinley. Some people had been wanting to annex Hawaii sooner, but President Grover Cleveland did not allow it. 2 years after this, Hawaii finally becomes an American territory. At this time, 1900, about ¼ of the population of Hawaii was made up of people born in Japan, because of the imported workers coming from other countries. About 60 years after Hawaii became an American territory, Hawaii becomes a state. Hawaii is declared the 50th state in the United States in 1959, partly due to all of the Americans and imported workers that came that increased the population. All in all, Americans had a big role in Hawaii’s evolution, and helped it become an American

The Spanish-American war gave the push that the American government needed to make a final decision over Hawaii. The Hawaiin Islands were known as the

The annexation of Hawaii by the United States is the reason why North America has Dole food products. With this said, United States is one of the many countries that is known for expanding its territory to other countries. In the 1800s, the United States had a relationship with Hawaii through the sugar trade, which opened the doors for foreign Americans to live in Hawaii. As opportunities opened, American sugar companies began to successfully expand within Hawaiian Islands. Through its wealth and power, foreign Americans along with Europeans controlled the economy and the Government which stripped Natives of their rights. This transition did not please the Hawaiian native Queen, Liliukalani, and wanted to strip their power by creating a new

Since 1820s America was already interested in Hawaii. As a result of the sugar trade, America had a better relationship with Hawaii. Therefore, they were able to prevent Europeans from interacting with Hawaii. Furthermore, in 1890, America established the McKinley Tariff which led to a rise in the import rates. Meanwhile, the Hawaiians were upset about the McKinley Tariff they were going to have a new queen, Queen Liliuokalani. At the same time, the sugar planters were planning to overthrow this new queen. Later on, U.S. forces forced the queen to surrender without permission from the president. However, President Cleveland didn’t annex Hawaii until President McKinley successfully annexes Hawaii. Finally, Hawaii was annexed in 1959.

They took control of over one million acres of land, and secretly planned to annex the islands to the U.S. The queen insisted that they were overthrowing a vicious regime in order to gain democratic foundations. In the mid-pacific, Hawaii’s harbor

The United States was extremely interested in acquiring more land and further develop their great nation. Unfortunately, most of the world was already taken. The islands of Hawaii, led by a lineal monarch, had come to be known as an independent state. This meant that no one had claimed the Islands of Hawaii yet, and the United States patiently planned and waited for the opportunity to claim Hawaii as part of the United States.

According to the speech(primary source, an original document) given by a man named, Sanford J Dole, the Americans imperializing Hawai'i was a constructive motion. This is because throughout the speech, Dole informs his audience on the benefits, the Hawaiians and Hawai'i would gain through US imperializing Hawai'i. The speech was given on June 10th, 1900, at Iolani Palace, after Dole was elected to be the governor of Hawai'i. The message Dole is conveying is that the day Hawai'i became a territory of the US, is an important day in Hawaiian history, as it was the day Hawai'i was given the resources and connections required to increase its economy, and job and educational opportunities available. Hawaii's economy increasing was evidenced when Dole stated, “..Products from Hawai'i.. will.. be exported to the US...without international sales tax…” The quote shows that through being a part of the US, Hawaiians could export products grown in Hawai'i to

either before or after his departure for Hawaii regarding attempts at achieving annexation in the Hawaiian Nation.” (3) Stevens had many reasons of his own to support annexation. When he arrived in the islands, he saw many great economic and military advantages to having Hawaii annexed as a state. He realized that Hawaii in itself was a growing industry, soon to be had as a major sugar producer in the world at the time. Plus, Hawaii offered a huge strategic position, lying in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, which could serve as a docking point for many U.S. warships. Stevens himself felt that he was doing good in helping an expanding America grow to even greater proportions by backing annexation in the islands.

In 1820 the first American arrived as missionaries and settled down there. The reciprocity treaty of 1875 made Hawaii depended on the united states by allowing sugar to pass freely and restriction the monarchy’s power. In 1890 the McKinley Tariff Act ended the free trade and valued American producers this caused the economy to suffer greatly. the new queen decreed a new constitution that shifted the power to the natives instead of the white Americans that had previously influenced the island politics. However, this caused a revolted in January of 1893 that lasted three days. In February of 1893, a threat was sign annexing Hawaii to the united states but it was ratified. This caused an investigation to happen that later lead to the republic of Hawaii when foul play was found. However, Hawaii was still on the agenda of many people in the congress with it being in an ideal location. Finally, In 1898 a joint resolution to annexation Hawaii was signed on July 7,

and about 60 Japanese, (although it is tough to figure out how many Japanese), people

On January 17th, 1893, the Hawaiian Monarchy was illegally overthrown by American businessmen who called themselves the Republic of Hawai’i. Since then, the native Hawaiian population has been marginalized within their own homelands, while their lands were desecrated by the imperialists of the United States.

HONOLULU, Hawaii — A giant stream of molten hot lava is shooting out of a sea cliff on Hawaii Island. The lava is pouring into the Pacific Ocean. It is exploding as soon as it hits the water.

The annexation of Hawaii was an important event in the history of the world. It is still not easy for the Hawaiians to accept the fact that America had taken over a land 2500 miles away from the West Coast. In 1917 Hawaii was considered the 50th state supported by the islanders after a plebiscite. Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani was overthrown because of the support of the United States army as well as naval forces to a group of businessmen belonging to the sugar and pineapple industry. The Armed forces of the United States were ordered to provide this support on the directives of the minister of the United States to Hawaii. In reality they were missionaries who had been welcomed for several years by the

territory in 1898. It officially became the fiftieth state in the United States on August 21st, 1959, but secessionists had already begun fighting to regain its sovereignty. Hawaii is a land that many believe was corrupted by outsiders, occupied by a foreign military, and overcome illegally, in turn leading them to challenge the it’s statehood and strive for the return of its sovereignty.

The Mahele of 1848 was unjust. When King Kamehameha III had encountered the foreigners, he found that they were in great desire to possess their own land for the sake of themselves becoming wealthy, but still reluctantly put this fact to the side, because the Hawaiians were very caring and generous people. However, once the foreigners had gotten the land that they wanted to grow the sugarcane on, they were exploiting the Hawaiians since they knew little to nothing about real estate because of their belief system. Sure enough, the foreigners were acquiring more and more land, which ultimately left the maka’ainana with only 1% of the land on the entire island the chief lands with 0% of the whole island, and government lands diving down to 29%. With these statistics, native Hawaiians only had 30% percent of the land that had always belonged to them, leaving the foreigners with a whopping 70% of land that wasn’t supposed to belong to them, but unfortunately did anyway (Menton, and Tamura 113). The Mahele was unjust because the foreigners kept on taking advantage of the Hawaiians by auctioning off land, charge the Hawaiians for land taxes, and gouge the prices of the land so that the Hawaiians couldn’t but any land (Potter, Kasdon, and Rayson 93).