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The British explorer, captain James Coke arrived in Hawai'i and found 300,000 hawaiians.
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American missionaries were welcomed by the Hawaiian islanders, and became powerful sugar planters and politicians.
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The Tyler Doctorine is issued and places an American sphere of influence on Hawaii.
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The US and Hawaii wrote and signed a treaty of friendship.
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King Kamehameha III secretly asked the US to annex Hawai'i and President Daniel Webster declines.
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The trade reciprocity treaty linked and allowed US sugar plantation owners to control the economy and government in Hawaii.
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Saumel Dole and his fellow conspirators proclaimed an overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. Claimed to be under a corrupt dissolute regime.
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President Cleveland apologized to the Queen of Hawaii and refused to annex Hawaii
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Samford Dole, a pineapple business entrepreneur declared himself of the republic of Hawaii, after the US house of Reps. had voted not to restore a monarchy. He led a group of people to dethrone Liliuo'Kalani.
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Republican party platform calls for the annexation of Hawaii.
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Hawaii officially becomes a US territory after political leaders fear the islands could be annexed by Japan.
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Hawaii becomes the 50th state after 90% of the islanders supported statehood.And a bypartisan compromise linked its stauts to Alaska. (Alaska also became a state in 1953).
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President Clinton apologized for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy by US citizens.
