The United States Takes Hawaii

  Queen Liliuokalani came to power with a " Hawaii for Hawaiians" agenda. she proposed removing the property-owning qualifications for voting.To prevent this from happening, business groups- encouraged by ambassador Stevens- organized a revolution. With the help of the marines, they overthrew the queen and set up a government by Stanford B. Dole.

 

Queen Liliʻuokalani issued the following statement yielding her authority to the United States Government rather than to the Provisional Government:

I, Liliʻuokalani, by the Grace of God and under the constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any and all acts done against myself and the constitutional government of the Hawaiian Kingdom by certain persons claiming to have established a Provisional Government of and for this Kingdom. That I yield to the superior force of the United States of America, whose Minister Plenipotentiary, His Excellency John L Stevens, has caused United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said Provisional Government. Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said forces, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representative and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

— Queen Liliʻuokalani, Jan 17, 1893

President Cleveland directed that the queen be restored to her throne.
 Dole refused to surrender power, Cleveland formally recognized the Republic of Hawaii.

1897 President McKinley , who favored annexation, succeeded Cleveland. August 12,1898, Congress proclaimed Hawaii an American territory, although hawaiians had never had the chance to vote. In 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States


https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ha06.ush.ind.overthrow/the-overthrow-of-queen-liliuokalani/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/queen-liliuokalani-the-first-and-last-queen-of-hawaii-kx2oc7/15032/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/578.html

1993: President Clinton apologizes for 1893 overthrow of Hawaiian monarchy

President Bill Clinton signs legislation apologizing for the U.S. role in the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The apology, meant as a means of reconciliation with Native Hawaiians, acknowledges the historic significance of the event—but the apology does not provide federal recognition to Native Hawaiians as other federal laws provide to American Indian tribes.

THEME 

Federal-Tribal Relations

REGION 

Hawai‘i