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After the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, U.S. President Grover Cleveland attempted to have the usurpers return Hawai'i to the Hawaiian people. However, he lost his next election and was never able to complete that task.

The usurpers (aka: The Committee of Safety), was comprised of wealthy American/European businessmen and missionary descendants (who were also businessmen), who made large profits from the sugar industry.

Because Hawai'i was not part of the United States, these wealthy businessmen could not get the price they wanted for sugar (through trade with the U.S.). The solution to that problem was to take over Hawai'i and hand it over to the U.S., which The Committee of Safety did once President Grover Cleveland was out of office.

His successor, William McKinley, saw Hawai'i as a valuable strategic military location. With that, he accepted Hawai'i and never returned it to its people. To this day, Hawai'i has the largest military population of any State and one of its largest land owners is the U.S. military.

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