Documenting United States History

312 ChapTEr 1 3 | a Gilded aGe | period Six 18 65 –1898

p raCTICINg historical Thinking

Identify: What features of the image are most prominent?

Analyze: How does this image of women reflect a larger development about lei-

sure in America at this time?

Evaluate: In what ways was the pursuit of leisure an important part of America’s

emerging economy? 

Document 13.5 JoHN FoSTER, Memo to President Grover

Cleveland

1893

American missionaries and sugar planters settled in the kingdom of Hawaii through-

out the nineteenth century. In 1893, Americans in Hawaii overthrew Queen Lili‘uokalani

and requested annexation to the United States. Although President Grover Cleveland

rejected annexation overtures, the islands were annexed in 1898 during the term of Pres-

ident William McKinley.

... [F]rom an early day the policy of the United States has been consistently
and constantly declared against any foreign aggression in the Kingdom of Hawaii
inimical [harmful] to the necessarily paramount rights and interests of the
American people there, and the uniform contemplation of their annexation as
a contingent necessity. But beyond that it is shown that annexation has been on
more than one occasion avowed as a policy and attempted as a fact....

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