I believe that they were actually labeled as observers. Or are there multiple choices.
I think that The United States recognized Hawaii as its own nation and had to sugar tariffs imposed on the sugar that was being imported from the island to the mainland US.
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The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. ... By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials.