The Newlands Resolution, 30 Stat. 750, was a joint resolution passed on July 7, 1898, by the United States Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, Congress created the Territory of Hawaii.
This 1897 political cartoon portrays the U.S. annexation of Hawaii as "Another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing".
Image: Lowering the Hawaiian flag at Annexation ceremony (PPWD 8 3 006)
Image: Raising the American Flag Over Iolani Palace
The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an unincorporated and unorganized territory. In 1893, the Committee of Public Safety overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani, the monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, after she rejected the 1887 Bayonet Constitution. The Committee of Public Safety intended for Hawaii to be annexed by the United States; however, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat opposed to imperialism, refused. A new constitution was subsequently written while Hawaii was being prepared for annexation.
The founding members of the Republic
Troops of the Republic of Hawaii after the counter-revolution
Newspaper illustration of Queen Liliuokalani's public trial by a military tribunal in 1895 in the former throne room of the Iolani Palace
An anti-annexation meeting at Hilo, 1897
