(A) Purchasing it from China
(B) Winning it in war from Britain
(C) ** Overthrowing the existing monarchy
(D) Giving into Hawaiian pleas for statehood
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Presidential Investigation of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government . On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom without just cause, which led to a conditional surrender by the Hawaiian Kingdom’s executive monarch, Her Majesty Queen Lili’uokalani, the following day.
Concept note-2: -Pro-American business interests had overthrown the Queen when she rejected constitutional limits on her powers. The new government realized that Hawaii was too small and militarily weak to survive in a world of aggressive imperialism, especially on the part of Japan. It was eager for American annexation.
Concept note-3: -A state of peace between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States was transformed to a state of war when United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 16, 1893, and illegally overthrew the Hawaiian government the following day.
Concept note-4: -On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.
Concept note-5: -In 1893 Americans living in Hawaii overthrew the existing government, and American troops supported the coup. Hawaii became yet another trophy of the Age of Imperialism.