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Trump winning the majority of the Electoral College and hence becoming the 45th President of the United States was an outcome which at the time I had thought impossible, if solely due to the aforementioned eccentric series of events that had circulated around Trump for a majority of his candidacy.įollowing the election, the prominent question that could not leave my mind was a simple one: how? How had the American people changed so much in only a couple of years to allow an outsider hit by a number of black marks during the election to be elected to the highest position in the United States government? How did so many pollsters and political scientists fail to predict this outcome? How can we best analyze the campaigns of each candidate, now given hindsight and knowledge of the eventual outcome? In an attempt to answer each of these, I have turned to a perhaps unlikely source.
However, the finale of the election that culminated with Republican candidate Donald J. So much happened during the months leading up to November that it became difficult to keep track with what who said when and why. The 2016 Presidential Election was, in a single word, weird. Racial attitudes and party politics in the United States deferred statehood until a bipartisan compromise linked Hawaii's status to Alaska, and both became states in 1959.This article was written for The Data Incubator by Jay Kaiser, a Fellow of our 2018 Winter cohort in Washington, DC who landed a job with our hiring partner, ZeniMax Online Studios, as a Big Data Engineer. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Stevens, worked closely with the new government.ĭole sent a delegation to Washington in 1894 seeking annexation, but the new President, Grover Cleveland, opposed annexation and tried to restore the Queen. The administration of President Benjamin Harrison encouraged the takeover, and dispatched sailors from the USS Boston to the islands to surround the royal palace. The planters' belief that a coup and annexation by the United States would remove the threat of a devastating tariff on their sugar also spurred them to action. When Queen Liliuokalani moved to establish a stronger monarchy, Americans under the leadership of Samuel Dole deposed her in 1893. sugar plantation owners from the United States came to dominate the economy and politics of the islands. An 1875 trade reciprocity treaty further linked the two countries and U.S. In 1849, the United States and Hawaii concluded a treaty of friendship that served as the basis of official relations between the parties.Ī key provisioning spot for American whaling ships, fertile ground for American protestant missionaries, and a new source of sugar cane production, Hawaii's economy became increasingly integrated with the United States.
He also proposed to Great Britain and France that no nation should seek special privileges or engage in further colonization of the islands. interests in Hawaii and opposing annexation by any other nation. In 1842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster sent a letter to Hawaiian agents in Washington affirming U.S. During the 1830s, Britain and France forced Hawaii to accept treaties giving them economic privileges. For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaii might become part of a European nation's empire. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. Diplomatic History > 1866-1898 Annexation of Hawaii, 1898Īmerica's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. You are in: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of the Historian > Timeline of U.S.
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