How Did the US Annex Hawaii?

Why is Hawaii a part of the USA? It's the only state outside of North America, and was the last to join the Union. Not to mention that it was independent, as the Kingdom of Hawaii, for a century before the US flag was raised over the islands. American settlers came to Hawaii before the US government did. They acted as missionaries and converted much of the Hawaiian population, but eventually, under the leadership of Sanford B. Dole and the Hawaiian League, they overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani and the Hawaiian monarchy, and invited in the US.

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[caidenniemi]

love how you mentioned the insanely large desire for america to have a naval base and japenese influence

[GhostCountries]

Hey, just came across your channel and - as a fellow much smaller YouTuber 😅 - really appreciate the work you put into your videos + subscribed! Your video actually reminded me of "Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Venture" by Julia Flynn Siler, which really is great book on the matter.

[Mr.Mister]

Great video. You really do deserve more subscribers for the amount of effort you put into your videos

[QuizzersTV]

As usual, fantastically done. Not surprised Dole was involved!

[michaelwang]

Kamehame HA! 0:35 - While his legacy ended; his name will forever live on in our generation in Dragon Ball XD

[awildtannerwasfound]

It’s quite interesting how usually business interests kind of dominated American expansionism/interventions in some areas, like how America had a raid on Taiwan before it was cool in the 1860s or 70s because one of their merchant ships was destroyed. Or how they bombarded the falklands over arresting American whalers, the banana wars etc. etc. I used to think history of America was boring in some ways, even though I was an American, but I never really looked past the surface details until a few years ago and discovered the interesting events and practices that still define how my country operates.

[zweilonginus]

Love my Hawaiian brothers and sisters!

[kalaiolele]

@Look Back History. Hawai'i was never "officially Annexed" it was, according to the International court at the Hague, illegally annexed and occupied by the USA; there was no signed treaty of annexation between the two recognized independent states. Look Back at the TRUTH and FACTS of History.

[patricksyquio]

Ur video is very very enlightening the history of Hawaii n its People which I was not aware of its history rich in culture .

[JUSTICFORLL]

You definitely deserve more subscribers man, great video!

[Solidbuilthomes]

1) Wealthy Hawaiians and the monarchy were very complacent and allowed all of this to happen. Robert Wilcox tried to get Kalakaua to man up and stand for Hawaii, but didn't... Robert Wilcox is a true revolutionary, and he's the one locals should be waving flags for
2) Hawaii aint gonna be sovereign.... 80% of the people here are Asian/ mixed Asian, and their ancestors came here a century ago and worked their tails off while the Hawaiians laid around and watched it happen...
You snooze, you lose.
But, hey, people love a good " F the man" narrative, so, heres another victimization story for the masses..

[dylangtech]

How to take over an archipelago (American style):

1) Weaken and destroy them in a war
2) Invest heavily in a huge economic boom and a dependency
3) In a crisis, revoke that investment, and watch their population collapse
4) To account for population loss, Americans move in and eventually outnumber the natives
5) Coup the government

Wait, I thought we were talking about Japan

[Hunter-cx]

Kamehameha the great? İ think ve found master roshi’s island.

[micahistory]

interesting how history matters made a video the day after you did, it seems like you are the smaller version of his channel

[Edwardi]

4:55 once a territory is given statehood it will be American as long as American exist... you can't leave the union without war.

[micahistory]

this is especially interesting since i spent 5 months there

[ironhorsedeuel]

Unfortunately, this video lied. Hawaii had a cote on statehood of which over 80% of its native piulation voted foe it.

[eyepatch]

Kamekameha conquered the natives and took control of Hawaii
The USA did the same
So neither had the right to the islands so stop crying about being in this situation
Native is relative to when it began

[alitatunertc]

It was illegally annexed. The queen of Hawaii never submitted to the USA Inc.

[mitnoxin]

As you soon as you said Americans and Europeans, we all knew those poor people were screwed and their fun lives ruined.