Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
President McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution (House Joint Resolution 259) annexing the Hawaiian Islands, legitimizing a corporate coup d’état executed five years earlier by American sugar planters who overthrew the constitutional monarchy of Queen Liliuokalani. The annexation occurs …
William McKinley
Sanford B. Dole
Queen Liliuokalani
Sugar plantation owners
Committee of Safety
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