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Content: When Queen
Liliuokalani moved to establish a stronger monarchy, Americans under
the leadership of Samuel Dole deposed her in 1893. The planters' belief
that a coup and annexation by the United States would remove the threat
of a devastating tariff on their sugar also spurred them to action. The
administration of President Benjamin Harrison encouraged the takeover,
and dispatched sailors from the USS Boston to the islands to surround
the royal palace. The U.S. minister to Hawaii, John L. Stevens, worked
closely with the new government. Dole sent a delegation to Washington in 1894 seeking annexation, but
the new President, Grover Cleveland, opposed annexation and tried to
restore the Queen. Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the
United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William
McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its
first governor. Racial attitudes and party politics in the United
States deferred statehood until a bipartisan compromise linked Hawaii's
status to Alaska, and both became states in 1959. ...Show more
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