The Overthrow Post

Reminder: Pick one person from your group to email me (ms.yamasawa@gmail.com) the key points from your presentation so I may post it here on our blog.

Group 1: Jasper, Jared, Elijah, Andrew
Key points
- Kamehameha was able to rule over the Hawaiian islands because he had very great leadership skills. He just was skillful, and he had help from foreigners like Issac Davis and Sam Young. They gave him weapons to fight.


Group 2: Treaties and Conventions
Hawaii was a sovereign nation ruled by King Kamehameha III until the foreigners came to Hawaii. In 1839, the Catholics led troubles with France, which was supposed to protect Catholics in the Pacific. In 1843, Lord George Paulet forced Kamehameha to cede the islands to Britain.

Group 3
Hawaii was not the only island/nation being colonized in the late 1800s. There was also Africa and other Pacific islands. More powerful countries colonized weaker countries by controling their economy or using military force. Sometimes both were used. Imperialism was used to strengthen the more powerful country's economy and to spread religion.

Missing Group 4

Group 5

1.Queen Liliʻuokalani sent a letter of protest to the provisional government saying she was against all acts done against her and the constitutional government. She was accused of signing into law a lottery bill. She favored the Lottery Bill because the money would go to public works projects, which would have benefited everyone. The constitution of 1887 forced her to sign all the bills that passed legislature and cabinet. On 1967, the Hawaiian Kingdom was "forever gone" because the American flag replaced the Hawaiian flag.

Group 6:

Republic: Stanford Dole refused to give back the Queen her throne. President Grover Cleveland didn't like it and said to give it back, but Dole refused.

Rebels: Followers of the Queen formed a rebellion but was caught and got arrested.

Queen Lili'uokalani: Was sent to prison for 5 years but stayed under house arrest for 8 months until parole.

United state travels: Queen traveled to US and pleaded but no one helped.

President McKinley: After 2 years of no govt for Hawaii, President McKinley finally signed a bill that made Hawai'i a state. (1900)