Title: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia
Headings: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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Contents
Background
Sugar reciprocity
Rebellion of 1887 and the Bayonet Constitution
Wilcox Rebellion of 1888
Liliʻuokalani attempts to re-write Constitution
Overthrow
United States involvement
Aftermath
Response
United States
International
Hawaiian counter-revolution
Republic, United States annexation, United States Territory
See also
References
External links

Content: Congress agreed to the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 for seven years in exchange for Ford Island. After the treaty, sugar production expanded from 12,000 acres (49 km 2) of farm land to 125,000 acres (510 km 2) in 1891. At the end of the seven-year reciprocity agreement, the United States showed little interest in renewal. Rebellion of 1887 and the Bayonet Constitution
Main articles: Hawaiian rebellions (1887–1895) and 1887 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Lorrin Thurston, Minister of the Interior (Hawaii)
On January 20, 1887, the United States began leasing Pearl Harbor. Shortly afterwards, a group of mostly non-Hawaiians calling themselves the Hawaiian Patriotic League began the Rebellion of 1887. They drafted their own constitution on July 6, 1887. The new constitution was written by Lorrin Thurston, the Hawaiian Minister of the Interior who used the Hawaiian militia as threat against Kalākaua. Kalākaua was forced under threat of assassination to dismiss his cabinet ministers and sign a new constitution which greatly lessened his power. It would become known as the " Bayonet Constitution " due to the threat of force used.