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America’s Pacific Jewels
America has just annexed the Hawaiian island into the United States of America, but the question is how did we come to own these Hawaiian islands?
It all started in 1891, when a new ruler came to throne. Her name was Liliuokalani(below). However a few years ago plantation owners from Europe became to take over Hawaii. In contrary her first act as queen was to make it so only native Hawaiians could vote. This act failed and she was locked up in her own house for 8 months, by a bunch of haoles(people who aren’t from the descent of Hawaii natives), among these men the “president” of the group was Sanford B Dole. They then sent a request to annex Benjamin However Liliuokalani sent her sister to congress to plead for them

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