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According to the National archives in 1893 Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by a group of white businessmen called the Committee of safety 1875 King Kalakaua signed the bayonet constitution, which would be the beginning of the end of Hawaii, then in 1887 King Kalakaua was then faced with guns pointed to sign the bayonet constitution which took power from the throne and the Hawaiian people voting rights. Then when the king died queen Liliuokalani took the throne trying to get a new constitution in place to give back the trones power and the hawaiians voting this was put down and leaked through the Queen's advisors to the committee of safety. On January 13 1893 hawaii was overthrown by minister stevens and the committee of safety. I feel like the overthrow of hawaii was unfair because Minister stevens had no right to bring troops to take over the iolani …show more content…

This is wrong because the non hawaiians have the most power over hawaii and had a huge effect pushing King Kalakaua and Liliuokalani to sigh contributions like the bayonet constitution or not sign the new constitution that liliuokalani written.
Although there may have been some upside to it like no tariff, but there was zero hawaiian support for the annexation of hawaii. If you have zero percent of the natives that want the annexation to happen why should the foreigners the ones who have been taking away hawaii culture science King Kamehameha II reign choose to pick what happens to the Kingdom of Hawaii. There was ways to get around this though because the Hawaiian league chose pointed bayonets at king kalakaua which he had to singh which gave more voting rights to foreigners and less to hawaiians. I think that it was illegal for hawaii to be overthrown by white male with no hawaiian support and illegally bringing troops and signing that hawaii was protected by the United States. Therefore the overthrow was

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