What Really Happened to Hawaii's Kingdom After Businessmen Took It in a Morning

#TheLastFlag #history #documentary In 1893 American businessmen and US marines took Hawaii in a single morning — and then the United States president declared it an act of war and spent a year trying to give the kingdom back. Almost everyone knows the short version of the Hawaiian overthrow: sugar planters, marines, Queen Liliʻuokalani deposed, annexation. Almost nobody knows what the American record actually says about the five years that followed The chapters are 0:00 Introduction 2:08 An Act Of War Said The President 4:23 Two Days 8:05 Twenty-One Thousand Signatures 10:35 A Vote That Needed Only Half 13:18 The Oath The Classroom And The Ballot 17:20 Land A Goat Could Not Live On 20:01 The Last Line 22:16 What It Comes To Subscribe to The Last Flag for the history of countries that no longer exist. #history #documentary #hawaii #1890s #colonialism