. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. Britain to endanger the MonroeDoctrine by occupying Corinto in Nicaraguato enforce the payment of an indemnity. The President offended many in dealingas he did with the Hawaiian Islands prob-lem. Most did not consider it the duty of 128 EXPANSION L1S93 this country to champion the cause of thenative dynasty there, a course likely tosubserve no enlightened interest. Whiter,chiefly Americans, had come to own most of the land in the isl-ands, while importedAsiatics and Portu-guese competedsharply with the n
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. Britain to endanger the MonroeDoctrine by occupying Corinto in Nicaraguato enforce the payment of an indemnity. The President offended many in dealingas he did with the Hawaiian Islands prob-lem. Most did not consider it the duty of 128 EXPANSION L1S93 this country to champion the cause of thenative dynasty there, a course likely tosubserve no enlightened interest. Whiter,chiefly Americans, had come to own most of the land in the isl-ands, while importedAsiatics and Portu-guese competedsharply with the na-tives as power, even,was largely exercisedby the whites,through whose influ-ence the monarchyhad been reducedto a constitutional form. In January, 1893, Queen Liliuokalanisought by a cotip detat to reinvest her royalauthority with its old absoluteness and todisfranchise non-naturalized whites. TheAmerican man-of-war Boston, lying in Hono-lulu harbor, at the request of American resi-dents, landed marines for their American colonv now initiated a coun-. Princess (afterwards Queen)Liliuokalani. 1893] CLEVELAND AGAIN PRESIDENT 129 ter revolution, declaring the monarchyabrogated and a provisional governmentestablished. Minister Stevens at once rec-ognized the Provisional Government as defacto sovereign. Un-der protest theQueen yielded. The new govern-ment formally placeditself under the pro-tectorate of theUnited States, andthe Stars and Stripeswere hoisted over theGovernment Build-
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