Queen++Liliukalani.

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=Queen Liliuokalani's Role Prior to the Annexation=

"The life of the land is established in righteousness".
 * //"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono"//**

[|Queen Liliuokalani] accepted the honorary position of becoming the queen of Hawaii in 1890. She felt that her onus to watch over her island, protect it from being invaded by the western expansion, and preserve Hawaii's culture. The most important task she was given was to make a new [|Constitution for Hawaii] also known as the "Bayonet Constitution." This Constitution was in desperate need of a change because; it confines the Hawaiian Military and disenfranchises poor Hawaiian citizens. The Bayonet Constitution gave richer people such as European, American, and Hawaiian Elites an appendage over Hawaii. The Constitution's text restricted Hawaiian citizens, who were typically not rich, from voting for office (Kennedy). This became a problem because, it made the citizens feels left out and desires to be included in the voting scene regardless of their annual income. Queen Liliuokalani agreed with the citizens who felt oppressed by the Constitution, so she decided to promote a change. Unfortunately, in 1893 her generosity led her to becoming overthrown by the rich people in Hawaii accompanied by the United States. After [|Queen Liliuokalani] was overthrown, the McKinley Tariff came into effect and impacted the sugar trade in Hawaii (Kennedy). This tariff was appointed to maintain trade between the United States and Hawaii. This tariff was one of the many things that accumulated into the Annexation of Hawaii, in order to reestablish their position in the economic world.



//"Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is as precious to you. Quite warmly as you love your country, so they love theirs. With all your goodly possessions, covering a territory so immense that there yet remain parts unexplored, possessing islands that, although new at hand, had to be neutral ground in time of war, do not covet the little vineyard of Naboth's,* so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for"be not deceived, God is not mocked." The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call "Father," and now whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."// //* This account she's referring to is located in the Bible I Kings 21:1-24//

[|Article on the American side of the Hawaian Annexation] [|The Life of Queen Lydia Liliuokalani] [|Hawaii's Story by the Queen] Works Consulted for the Annexation of Hawaii
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