OMG! I'm like sooo pissed. I'm researching stuff for my History term paper. And omg!!! The U.S. sucks. We don't even tell the truth in our HISTORY books!!!!!! or websites!!!!!!! Private websites run by ppl in the U.S. don't even tell the truth!!!!!!! all of which I knew already... but still OMG!!!!! this is rediculous. U.S. historybook online account: On January 17, 1893, the conspirators announced the overthrow of the queen's government. To avoid bloodshed, Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Liliukalani, yielded her sovereignty, and called upon the U.S. government "to undo the actions of its representatives." The U.S. government refused to help her regain her throne. When she died in 1917, Hawaii was an American territory. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state after a plebiscite in which 90 percent of the islanders supported statehood. it fails to state one, then a VOTE wasn't HELD. two women who were rulers at one point in hawai'i couldn't vote had a vote been held, three the u.s. navy was threating the queen. the queen was held prisoner in her own home the list goes on...... The businessmen who conspired to overthrow the queen claimed that they were overthrowing a corrupt, dissolute regime in order of advance democratic principles. They also argued that a western power was likely to acquire the islands. Hawaii had the finest harbor in the mid-Pacific and was viewed as a strategically valuable coaling station and naval base. In 1851, King Kamehameha III had secretly asked the United States to annex Hawaii, but Secretary of State Daniel Webster declined, saying "No power ought to take possession of the islands as a conquest...or colonization." But later monarchs wanted to maintain Hawaii's independence. The native population proved to be vulnerable to western diseases, including cholera, smallpox, and leprosy. By 1891, native Hawaii's were an ethnic minority on the islands. King Kamehameha III was the one that set up the country to be independent. HE GOT GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO SING A DOCUMENT STATING HAWAII WAS AN INDEPENDANT NATION!!!!!!!!! President Cleveland's recommendation that the monarchy be restored was rejected by Congress. The House of Representatives voted to censure the U.S. minister to Hawaii and adopted a resolution opposing annexation. But Congress did not act to restore the monarchy and in 1894, Sanford Dole, who was beginning his pineapple business, declared himself president of the Republic of Hawaii without a popular vote. The new government found the queen guilty of treason and sentenced her to five years of hard labor and a $5,000 fine. While the sentence of hard labor was not carried out, the queen was placed under house arrest. TREASON??? after we TOOK her country from her??????? and the worst you ask? 100 years after we destroyed a peaceful nation, in 1993, President Bill Clinton signed a joined Congressional resolution, which apologized for the U.S. ILLEGAL role in the overthrow. The House approved the resolution by voice vote. The Senate passed it 65 to 34. seriously. 34 SENATORS, of OUR Senators, didn't even want to APOLOGIZE!!! after one HUNDRED years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY????????????