So, imma try to summarize this best I can because the value of understanding the overthrow are honestly books worth.
1887- King Kalakaua has been King for 13 years and has just faced a second cabinet change. this cabinet was called the “reform cabinet” because many of it’s members were a part of the reform party (made up of annexationist, businessmen and american sympathizers). these men threatened Kalakaua with a new constitution, giving themselves more power, and more say from elite citizens (primarily members of the reform party) about the affairs of the government. what happens if they king doesn’t sign it? well, he dies, and we overthrow the kingdom instead.
1891- King dies in California, his sister is made Queen, Lili’uokalani. first goal? kick out the reform government! yay…she has the right to, she’s a new monarch. they didn’t like that and got really mad, so they figured out how to slip a couple allies into her government.
1892-1893- my gosh, this legislative session. took over 171 days, and was largely about the effects of the 1887 “Bayonet constitution” and talks regarding plots to kill the queen and overthrow the government. in fall of 1892, i have found a newspaper article talking about a proposition to assassinate the queen. because of this, the man was put on trial for treason. talks about an overthrow started after she took the crown in 1891.
on January 14th, 1893, the queen made a draft constitution that would replace the bayonet Constitution. it would follow the Constitution that came before, the Constitution of 1864, ke kanawai a kapuaiwa. this constitution would restore authority to the monarch, government, and even voting rights that were taken from the people (many were not economically inclined to vote because of the bayonet constitutions). Uh oh, conspirators in the room? yup…this constitutional draft was supposed to be a SECRET, no one outside of this session was supposed to learn of the draft until her cabinet had signed it. but word got out and the reform party reacted. to put it short, her cabinet refused to sign the constitution because they were afraid of becoming targets. on the morning of the overthrow, january 17th, an officer was shot as a wagon of guns was being brought to the reform party. they had a US minister on their side (the very man responsible for “american responsibility” for the overthrow). he had the USS boston land and send it’s troops to government buildings and to have the police force, and royalist militia’s to surrender. the queen found out, ordered the police not to act, because any acts of violence will not only mean bloodshed, but also an action of “war” against the United States, something the kingdom would not handle, especially with the US minister on their side, whom could easily create a bias against the kingdom. by 6pm that evening, the queen was informally deposed and the reform party proclaimed a “provisional government”.
for the years to follow there would be several rebellions and protest, as well as petitions that would stop treaties of annexation from succeeding. they worked, but then a US resolution was put into play. essentially it is criticized cause that’s only a US law, so it didn’t make sense that it could annex via a proclamation. at that point you could create a join resolution to annex the whole world! hawaiians still fought for independence, legally. there was the home rule party, which just meant an independence party, and they were influential for a bit, but the republican party, which was backed by the conspirators who overthrew the monarchy, supressed them, and they fell apart. no one listened to the democratic party, and the people were slowly loosing their rights to corruption in the government. in 1896, 2 years before annexation the “republic of hawai’i” legally supressed the use of Hawaiian language in schools, which since has been seen as “hawaiian language got banned/made illegal”. Hawaiian culture was made a commodity under the tourism industry and to “practice your culture was seen as shame. my great grandma lived through the 40s and 50s and she said even then you’d get punished for practicing hawaiian culture or language but “please practice for our shows”
got any questions? ask away!
AssociateWeak8857 on
Most of America became American not willingly
Tall-Log-1955 on
OP you are an agendaposter and only post about one thing
Rpcouv on
No country or people just willingly become a part of a country. No one wants to be ruled and everyone wants to rule.
Alexdeboer03 on
Not a single part of the us willingly became a part of the us tbh
Ano_Czlowieczek_Taki on
It is sad, but I am not surprised. Actually I am more surprised how advanced Havaians were with goverments before USA. Thanks for new knowledge about this region, and I am sorry how you were treated.
randyrandysonrandyso on
now do singapore
DonnieMoistX on
I’ve never heard anyone claim Hawaii just chose to join the US one day.
undreamedgore on
I mean, the government in power asked to join.
AdOrdinary232 on
Just like most nation states.
Trialbyfuego on
Hawaii was only annexed because America at that time feared Japan would annex it first. Google it. 20% of the islands’ population was Japanese and they even sent a warship to bully Hawaii into allowing more Japanese immigrants to come over since they had been banned by the Hawaiian government at the time.
poseidon_master on
Wait until this guy finds out about the rest of america
geekteam6 on
This meme is (unsurprisingly) highly simplistic to the point of being misleading.
[Hawai’i statehood was approved](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Admission_Act) in a plebiscite vote by 93% of the islands’ population, *including* a majority of native Hawaiians. It was achieved by a multi-racial coalition who fought for full citizenship status, which was hampered by the Big Five sugar oligopoly which had effectively ruled the islands even during the monarchy.
The wrongful annexation of Hawai’i is only part of the story, and is not even surprising or controversial — an official apology is [quite literally US law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution).
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So, imma try to summarize this best I can because the value of understanding the overthrow are honestly books worth.
1887- King Kalakaua has been King for 13 years and has just faced a second cabinet change. this cabinet was called the “reform cabinet” because many of it’s members were a part of the reform party (made up of annexationist, businessmen and american sympathizers). these men threatened Kalakaua with a new constitution, giving themselves more power, and more say from elite citizens (primarily members of the reform party) about the affairs of the government. what happens if they king doesn’t sign it? well, he dies, and we overthrow the kingdom instead.
1891- King dies in California, his sister is made Queen, Lili’uokalani. first goal? kick out the reform government! yay…she has the right to, she’s a new monarch. they didn’t like that and got really mad, so they figured out how to slip a couple allies into her government.
1892-1893- my gosh, this legislative session. took over 171 days, and was largely about the effects of the 1887 “Bayonet constitution” and talks regarding plots to kill the queen and overthrow the government. in fall of 1892, i have found a newspaper article talking about a proposition to assassinate the queen. because of this, the man was put on trial for treason. talks about an overthrow started after she took the crown in 1891.
on January 14th, 1893, the queen made a draft constitution that would replace the bayonet Constitution. it would follow the Constitution that came before, the Constitution of 1864, ke kanawai a kapuaiwa. this constitution would restore authority to the monarch, government, and even voting rights that were taken from the people (many were not economically inclined to vote because of the bayonet constitutions). Uh oh, conspirators in the room? yup…this constitutional draft was supposed to be a SECRET, no one outside of this session was supposed to learn of the draft until her cabinet had signed it. but word got out and the reform party reacted. to put it short, her cabinet refused to sign the constitution because they were afraid of becoming targets. on the morning of the overthrow, january 17th, an officer was shot as a wagon of guns was being brought to the reform party. they had a US minister on their side (the very man responsible for “american responsibility” for the overthrow). he had the USS boston land and send it’s troops to government buildings and to have the police force, and royalist militia’s to surrender. the queen found out, ordered the police not to act, because any acts of violence will not only mean bloodshed, but also an action of “war” against the United States, something the kingdom would not handle, especially with the US minister on their side, whom could easily create a bias against the kingdom. by 6pm that evening, the queen was informally deposed and the reform party proclaimed a “provisional government”.
for the years to follow there would be several rebellions and protest, as well as petitions that would stop treaties of annexation from succeeding. they worked, but then a US resolution was put into play. essentially it is criticized cause that’s only a US law, so it didn’t make sense that it could annex via a proclamation. at that point you could create a join resolution to annex the whole world! hawaiians still fought for independence, legally. there was the home rule party, which just meant an independence party, and they were influential for a bit, but the republican party, which was backed by the conspirators who overthrew the monarchy, supressed them, and they fell apart. no one listened to the democratic party, and the people were slowly loosing their rights to corruption in the government. in 1896, 2 years before annexation the “republic of hawai’i” legally supressed the use of Hawaiian language in schools, which since has been seen as “hawaiian language got banned/made illegal”. Hawaiian culture was made a commodity under the tourism industry and to “practice your culture was seen as shame. my great grandma lived through the 40s and 50s and she said even then you’d get punished for practicing hawaiian culture or language but “please practice for our shows”
got any questions? ask away!
Most of America became American not willingly
OP you are an agendaposter and only post about one thing
No country or people just willingly become a part of a country. No one wants to be ruled and everyone wants to rule.
Not a single part of the us willingly became a part of the us tbh
It is sad, but I am not surprised. Actually I am more surprised how advanced Havaians were with goverments before USA. Thanks for new knowledge about this region, and I am sorry how you were treated.
now do singapore
I’ve never heard anyone claim Hawaii just chose to join the US one day.
I mean, the government in power asked to join.
Just like most nation states.
Hawaii was only annexed because America at that time feared Japan would annex it first. Google it. 20% of the islands’ population was Japanese and they even sent a warship to bully Hawaii into allowing more Japanese immigrants to come over since they had been banned by the Hawaiian government at the time.
Wait until this guy finds out about the rest of america
This meme is (unsurprisingly) highly simplistic to the point of being misleading.
[Hawai’i statehood was approved](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Admission_Act) in a plebiscite vote by 93% of the islands’ population, *including* a majority of native Hawaiians. It was achieved by a multi-racial coalition who fought for full citizenship status, which was hampered by the Big Five sugar oligopoly which had effectively ruled the islands even during the monarchy.
The wrongful annexation of Hawai’i is only part of the story, and is not even surprising or controversial — an official apology is [quite literally US law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution).