Some US business leaders wanted Hawaii to be annexed to the United States because it would improve trade with pacific rim countries. Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959.
Sanford Dole was an <em>avid opponent</em> of the methods of King Kalakaua. Being a lawyer in Hawaii, he was the leader of the reform movement that wanted to overthrow the current head of state. Even though <em>his purpose was to free the people</em> from the treatment of King Kalakaua and his successor Queen Liliuokalani, his intention was based on the fact that we owned big plantations of sugar and becoming part of the United States would mean the exemption from import taxes for the sugar they sent to the U.S. It was president McKinley the one who finally instructed the Congress to create the territory of Hawaii and Dole was appointed governor.
The European slave trade began with Portugal's exploration of the west coast of Africa in search of a sea trade route to the East. The East had new resources, like spices and silk, and the Portuguese were hoping to acquire these goods without the hard journey by land from Europe to Asia.
ok dr Luther king wanted to create a allusion about stopping slavery so that the audience will get a mind set that slavery is a illegal and the allusion will always remind people that 100 years have passed since the emancipation proclamation.
