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The Hawaiian kingdom gets king-dumped
Thesis
Minister John L. Stevens
Being an American diplomat, he conspired to the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom. This meaning that he was a part of making a secret plan to commit an unlawful or harmful act upon the Hawaiian kingdom. When the missionaries came to Hawaii, they have claimed that they were there to convert them into being Christians, also to help the Hawaiians, to teach them to read, write and speak English. But once the time had come for the missionaries to go home, they did not want to. They wanted to stay. They have overstayed their visit. Minister John L. Stevens had decided then to take over the Hawaiian kingdom because he thought that the Hawaiians were incapable of doing what the white people were capable of, that the Hawaiians were like slaves. He had ordered U.S marines to Hawaii to annex the kingdom, but he did not succeed, he got caught, punished, and sent to jail for his wrong doing.
President William McKinley
William McKinley was president at the time when they had signed a bill to annex Hawaii. The Spanish-American war had been going on, and this event had been a factor into whether or not Hawaii would have been a strategic place to have. Prominent Americans had been in support for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom, but as for Democratic and anti-imperialist Republican opposition had blocked off access to the chains that incorporated to the chains that intertwined to the United States. He had reversed the policy that Grover Cleveland had made, and he advocated Hawaiian annexation. But, he was never able to push for a new annexation treaty through congress that year. On May 4, 1898, an annexation resolution supported by the president came its way to the House of Representatives. The senate had then passed the measure on July 6 and McKinley had signed it one day later.
President Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was the president before McKinley. Throughout this whole situation of the annexation of Hawaii, he had been watching Minister John L. Stevens call in support from the U.S Marines, which, only the president has the power to do so. So he then in turn calls for Secretary Blount to go and find out what is really happening and to send Cleveland back a report. So Blount to goes on and tells Stevens that what he is doing is illegal and immoral, but Stevens did not listen to Blount and carried on with his business. So Blount goes back to Cleveland and Cleveland comes up with the conclusion that this is an act of war and Stevens still does not listen and Cleveland just watches as Stevens does his stuff. The Hawaiians did not like this because Cleveland did not do anything about this situation, he just watched and thought he was doing something.