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Why Is The Bayonet Constitution Operate To The Annexation?

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This paper is about the bayonet constitution and the overthrow to the annexation. These events have had a huge effect on the Hawaiian people. From population of pure blooded Hawaiians dropping drastically. To Hawaiian getting kicked out of their homes and getting deadly disease and passing away.
On July 6 1887 the King David Kalakaua signed a constitution for the Kingdom of Hawaii. Kalakaua was forced to sign the law at gunpoint or he would be killed, and the document is named the Bayonet Constitution. The new constitution was written by a group of white businessmen and lawyers called the committee of safety. Who wanted the kingdom to be part of the United States another name for the group was the Hawaiian League. Was …show more content…

The constitution also changed voting rights in the Hawaiian kingdom. Only men of Hawaiian, American and European ancestry who met certain financial requirements could vote for the kingdom.
Then King Kalakaua was the last reigning Hawaiian monarch the last to the person to independent political power. The monarchy was completely overthrown in 1893 and the U.S. annexed the kingdom in 1898 and then Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.
On Jan. 17, 1893 Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to resign. The group led to the dismantling 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. The King Kalakaua died in 1891 and was succeeded by his sister Liliuokalani who proposed a new constitution that would restore powers of the monarchy and extend voting rights for native Hawaiians. The Queen's actions made many of Hawaii’s white businessmen made so they formed a Committee of Safety with the goal of overthrowing the monarchy seeking annexation by the United

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