![]() Most of Hawaii's natives were opposed to annexation because a couple of centuries of history told them everything they need to know about being Indigenous under white rule, but no one asked them, and their wishes didn't factor into the decision. Polk Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Texas is admitted to the Union on December 29. decided to just annex the place already and be done with it. O’Sullivan is the first to use the term manifest destiny, in an essay arguing for the annexation of Texas. The white settlers formed a provisional government and for a while it was chaos - Hawaiian royalists tried to take back the government, the former queen was accused of treason, and the U.S. Marines and Navy sailors and forced the queen to capitulate. ![]() ![]() Well, the wealthy white settlers couldn't have that, so they formed a militia with 162 U.S. But when Lili'uokalani took over she was all, "Hmm, this constitution is racist crap," so she proposed a new constitution that restored the monarchy's power and gave voting rights back to native Hawaiians. 1 O'Sullivan was an influential political writer and advocate for the Democratic Party at that time and served. A few years before that, American settlers forced the Hawaiian king to sign a constitution that gave voting rights to wealthy (white) non-citizens, while disallowing Asian voters and decreeing that native Hawaiians could only vote if they were literate landowners. John Louis O'Sullivan (Novem March 24, 1895) was an American columnist, editor, and diplomat who used the term 'manifest destiny' in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States. ![]()
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