Overthrown The Hawaiian Kingdom
GIVING UP THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND
THESIS
On January 17, 1893 the day that Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown and it would not have been possible without the role of this three men’s, Pres. Harrison, pres. McKinley and Minster John Stevens that they had played.
President Benjamin Harrison
President Benjamin Harrison had submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. Also when there was a civil war of America, president Harrison did was a reciprocity treaty in Hawaii. That long ago Hawaii famous growing crop was sugar cane and the U.S. wanted sugar because they couldn’t farm sugar during the war and president Harrison told the Hawaiians that they don’t have to pay taxes for the sugar to the U.S., but when the war was finished the stop getting sugar from Hawaii and grew their own. Later that day president Harrison told the senate something that he introduce the about the treaty of annexation for Hawaii because they wanted pearl harbor and land, because in the start of the Spanish American War, the U.S. establishing a mid-Pacific fueling station and naval base became a strategic imperative for the United States.
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President William McKinley
President William McKinley became the president after Cleveland, In March of 1897; William McKinley was inaugurated as President of the United States. McKinley was in favor of annexation, and the change in leadership was soon felt. On June 16, 1897, McKinley and three representatives of the government of the Republic of Hawaii Lorrin Thurston, Francis Hatch, and William Kinney signed a treaty of annexation. President McKinley then submitted the treaty to the U.S. Senate for ratification. He also did not shared laissez-faire ideas of his predecessor. In July 7 it was the new imperialism that end up an Spanish American war that the went war just for pearl harbor because the fastest way to go to pearl harbor to America is passing through the Asia and their territory was owned from Spanish people and by getting rid of them is to take the territory from Philippines to Guam.
Minister John L. Steven
U.S. Minister John L. Stevens was the minister in Hawaii in 1893. Stevens would represent the U.S. on all matter, even including the political representation of the U.S. of America. He also racist the Hawaiians by drawing them a political cartoons that shows Hawaiians like they are unfit to rule, by looking at them a semi barbaric. During an in the overthrow of Liliuokalani government, it was concluded that the overthrow had utilized the aid of the John L. Stevens, the U.S. Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from the USS Boston. Later that then, it was determined the U.S. troops had remained neutral during the overthrow. However how Steven did that was to threaten the queen Liliuokalani by asking her to give up and surrender the island and pearl harbor, but Liliuokalani would never surrender to the government but she would surrender to the U.S.
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