Queen Liliuokalani
Lydia Liliuokalani was born on September 2, 1838, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She married John Owen Dominis on September 16, 1862. John’s father was a sea captain in Boston, and John worked with the government in Hawaii. The queen and her husband never had any children, John died soon after she became queen, and she never married anybody else.
She became the queen in January 1891 after her brother died and she was the last monarch to rule over Hawaii. She wanted a new constitution for Hawaii. The Bayonet Constitution of 1887 didn't give that much power to the government. She didn't like the Reciprocity Treaty of 1877, which her brother signed. This treaty let the U.S. use Pearl Harbor. The haole (white man) didn't like what she had done. The McKinley Tariff of 1890 caused a recession in Hawaii. In 1893, she made up a constitution for Hawaii by herself. The monarchy ended in 1894 because a man named Stanford Dole led a rebellion against her. She decided to step down so there wouldn't be any fighting. Hawaii became part of the U.S. in 1898 and Queen Liliuokalani wrote a book that year too. It was called Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen. She died in 1917 and there is a statue of her in Honolulu.
I think that Queen Liliuokalani was a good leader. She did what she thought was right and stepped down when she knew it was right. She didn't fight stepping down like some of the leaders now in the Middle East. She loved her country and didn't want anything bad to happen to it.
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