The new economy in Hawaii centered on the cultivation and refinement of sugar, run by white, non-native businessmen. American colonists and missionaries gradually usurped power from the Polynesian people native to the Hawaiian Islands who suddenly found their way of life divorced from the economic strength of the country.
President William McKinley officiates the wedding while Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama, who supported American expansion, stands watch.Īs was the case in the Philippines, the APA experience in Hawaii developed as a direct consequence of America’s imperial ambitions. tiles/non-collection/A/APA_essay1_51_ShotgunWedding_LC.xml Image courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1897 the satirical magazine Puck printed this political cartoon depicting “another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing” between Uncle Sam and a female personification of Hawaii.
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