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Rebellion of 1887 [ edit ] On June 30, 1887, a meeting of residents including the armed militia of the Honolulu Rifles , a group of soldiers that were secretly the Hawaiian League 's military arm, [ 4 ] and politicians who were members of the Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom , demanded from King Kalākaua the dismissal of his Cabinet ...
It was specifically triggered by an ill-fated attempt by Kalakaua to create a Polynesian Federation under his rule, and a bribery scandal Kalakaua was involved in regarding opium licenses. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 1887 constitution stripped the monarchy of much of its authority, imposed significant income and property requirements for voting, and ...
Hon. David Kalakaua, who at present holds the office of King's Chamberlain, is a man of fine presence, is an educated gentleman and a man of good abilities. He is approaching forty, I should judge—is thirty-five, at any rate. He is conservative, politic and calculating, makes little display, and does not talk much in the Legislature.
A small army was restored under King Kalākaua but failed to stop the 1887 Rebellion by the Missionary Party. The U.S. maintained a policy of keeping at least one cruiser in Hawaiʻi. On January 17, 1893, Liliʻuokalani, believing the U.S. military would intervene if she changed the constitution, waited for the USS Boston to leave port.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
Opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom took several forms. Following the overthrow of the monarchy on January 17, 1893, Hawaii's provisional government—under the leadership of Sanford B. Dole—attempted to annex the land to the United States under Republican Benjamin Harrison's administration.
Wilcox was born February 15, 1855, on the island of Maui.His father, Captain William Slocum Wilcox (1814 [3] –1910 [4]) was a native of Newport, Rhode Island.His mother was a native of Maui, [5] named Kalua, who was the daughter of Makole and Haupa.
King Kalākaua was aware of the rebellion and had avoided the palace, fearing it was a new plot to overthrow him. The Reform Party alerted to the rebellion sent the Honolulu Rifles under the command of Colonel Ashford and three cannons to suppress this revolt. Ashford was a Canadian immigrant who had come to Hawaii to join his brother.