TIL that a group of American sugar plantation owners with support of the US Government overthrew the last Queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani to make Hawaii a US Protectorate. Hawaii would later be annexed.
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Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy
On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president.Missy Sullivan (HISTORY)
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