A sepoy was the name given to an Indian infantryman employed hired by the British East India Company.
The Wilmot proviso states that slavery must be eliminated from the land that has been acquired from the result of the Mexican War. The Wilmot proviso was an American law that bans slavery to the acquired parts of the Mexico after the war and lead to the American Civil War.
Answer:
When Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii assumed the throne in 1891 and tried to reassert her sovereignty in the face of increasing foreign interference, she was deposed by a small group of American businessmen, with the support of the American diplomats and the U.S. Navy. On July 7, 1898, the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States by a joint resolution of Congress. Shown here is her letter of protest to the U.S. House of Representatives, dated December 19, 1898.
