Grover Cleveland: Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty - Milestone Documents

Grover Cleveland: Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty

( 1893 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

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the enlargement of our limits the expansion of U.S. territory
it became us it was in our best interests
Minister Willis Albert Shelby Willis (1843–1897), U.S. representative from Kentucky
the Queen Lili’uokalani (1838–1917), last Hawaiian monarch, who reigned for slightly less than two years between January 1891 and January 1893
sovereignty self-rule

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