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steps on getting Hawaii
president Cleveland grover
Grover Cleveland was an anti imperialist who had just taken office. He ordered an investigation into the legality of the Hawaiians protest. For 4 months, his investigator (Blount) came to the conclusion that annexing Hawaii is wrong. It is an act of war. President Cleveland demands to lower all American flags and to return Queen Liliuokalani to the throne. John Stevens refused to do so and quoted to send the marines and have them shoot all Americans on the island. Cleveland did nothing about it; this continued the suffering of the Hawaiian Islands. The president stood by and watched until his term of president ended. With Cleveland not taking action of stoping john l stevens wrong doing it continued the suffering of the Hawaiian overthrow and proceed on with the annexation of Hawaii. Cleveland had helped the overthrow by doing nothing because if he was able to do something and stop the coup de tat things would be different today.
u.s minister john l. stevens
Stevens was the U.S minister to the Hawaiian kingdom. Stevens went to Hawaii to describe the wishes of the U.S government. He supported the coup de' tat which involved Stanford dole and Lorrin thurstin. He was a racist and believed that the white race was superior and described the Hawaiian race as childlike, semi barbaric, and unfit to rule. The committee of safety said the same about Hawaiians. Stevens orders the US marines to get off the USS Boston and surround iolani palace. After forces the queen to surrender, she surrendered to the us government not to the provisional government because she knew that the united states would recognize how wrong this is and give her back her title as ruler of Hawaii. Due to the circumstances she was not able to physically fight with not enough man power and Stevens had no authority to do take this kind of action. President grove Cleveland took no action to return the queens throne. Stevens continued to go towards annexing the Hawaiian kingdom with the queen with no power and trapped in her room.